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Court Sets Protocol for Production and Review of Text Messages
Electronic Discovery Law, 03/31/08
The court denied defendants' motion to quash subpoenas to SkyTel for the production of certain text messages. The court found that the plaintiff was entitled to pursue the production of certain text messages sent or received by specified officials or employees of the City of Detroit.

The MacBook Air has no clothes
Futurelawyer, 03/28/08
The MacBook Air is just not having a good day. First, it gets hacked at a security convention; and, now, a high profile Apple reviewer pans it. The reviewer complains about the slow performance of the notebook, and the slow performance of Parallels.

Dodging an EDD Sanction
EDD Update, 03/25/08
In Toussie v. County of Suffolk in the Eastern District of New York, a defendant dodged substantive sanctions for losing and/or destroying e-mails requested in discovery because the parties requesting the e-mails failed to marshal satisfactory evidence that the missing e-mails would have been supportive of their case.