Publication Date
1-1-2011
Document Type
Article
Organizational Units
Sturm College of Law
Keywords
Electronically stored information, Discovery, Federal Rules of Evidence, ESI
Abstract
The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, even though they were amended in 2006 specifically to address the costs and scale of ediscovery, not only fail to contain the cost or scope of discovery, but, in fact, encourage expensive litigation ancillary to the merits of civil litigants' cases. This Article proposes that the solution to this dilemma is to eliminate the presumption that the producing party should pay for the cost of discovery. This rule should be abandoned in favor of a rule that would equally distribute the costs of discovery between the requesting and producing parties.
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Recommended Citation
Robert Hardaway, Dustin D. Berger, & Andrea Defield, E-Discovery’s Threat to Civil Litigation: Reevaluating Rule 26 for the Digital Age, 63 Rutgers L. Rev. 521 (2011).