Federal Magistrate Judge in California Removes $8.5m E-Discovery Sanctions

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More than two years after a judge ordered a jaw-dropping $8.5 million in sanctions against attorneys in the case that became textbook for how not to do e-discovery, Qualcomm v. Broadcom, a federal magistrate judge has decided that none of the attorneys should be sanctioned after all.

U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Barbara L. Major for the Southern District of California was persuaded after a three-day hearing with the sanctioned attorneys that none of them acted in bad faith and that they "made significant efforts to comply with their discovery obligations."

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Federal Magistrate Judge in California Removes $8.5m E-Discovery Sanctions

Instead, she found that the discovery failure was ...

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