Cases: Sanctions

Discovery Sanctions: $76,906.80 In Fees And Forensic Expert Expenses Awarded Jointly Against Ex-Employee And New Employer In Laptop Spoliation Case

Cases: Discovery, Cases: Sanctions

Delaware Decision Shows How Substantial E-Discovery Monetary Sanctions Can Be Imposed In Failure to Preserve Evidence Case.      Because California just recently passed e-discovery statutes, we continue to monitor cases of interest in fee and expense awards in computer spoliation cases. Here is one out of Delaware.      In Beard Research, Inc. v. Kates (Kates […]

Marc And Mike’s Top Twenty Decisions For 2009

Cases: Bankruptcy Efforts, Cases: Consumer Statutes, Cases: Family Law, Cases: Private Attorney General (CCP 1021.5), Cases: Probate, Cases: Sanctions, Cases: SLAPP, Cases: Social Security, Cases: Special Fee Shifting Statutes

Part 1 of 2: First Ten Grouping—Nos. 11-20.      As noted in an earlier post, we have accumulated our “top 20” attorney’s fees decisions, recognizing that we limit the list to published decisions and that the order reflects nothing about the importance of the decision. Rather, we try to survey decisions of interest in different

Probate: A Two-Fer From The Fourth District, Division Two

Cases: Probate, Cases: Sanctions

  Court of Appeal Examines Various Provisions on Awarding Probate Fees and on Having Trust Pay the Fee Awards.      In two somewhat companion cases, the Fourth District, Division 2 has done a nice job of examining various Probate Code statutes relating to the award of attorney’s fees and where they should be paid from.

Sanctions: Less Drastic Sanctions Than Evidentiary And Issue Sanctions Are In Order For Failing To Produce Computer Embedded Information During Trial

Cases: Discovery, Cases: Sanctions

Fourth District, Division 3 Reverses Sanctions, Ordering Reimbursement of Trial And Additional Discovery Costs.      As indicated on prior posts on e-discovery, litigators must be attuned to both pretrial, trial, and post-appeal sanctions that can be awarded against parties failing to produce computer embedded information. Here is one where the offending party got a break,

Discovery Sanctions: $25,607.03 In Sanctions Affirmed Where Attorney Interposed Too Many Deposition Objections

Cases: Discovery, Cases: Sanctions

Fourth District, Division 1 Did Vacate “Future Deposition” Sanctions.      The next post is a very pragmatic one for litigators involved in discovery battles. Cutting to the chase, an attorney was hit with substantial fees (sanctions) for interposing over 300 objections during the course of some depositions. The Fourth District, Division 1 affirmed, although they

Discovery Sanctions: Sanctions Against Litigants’ Attorneys Reversed Where Evidence Showed Client Was Responsible For Sanctionable Conduct

Cases: Discovery, Cases: Sanctions

Second District, Division 2 Reverses $3,387.50 Sanctions Award Against Attorneys.      Under various discovery statutes, the trial court has discretion to award discovery sanctions jointly and severally against losing litigant and/or their attorneys. However, attorneys have another defense in their quiver—the “my client made me do it” defense.      The Court of Appeal is Manzanares

Sanctions: CCP Section 128.7 Sanctions Are Not Proper Unless The Unfiled Motion Has A Definitive Motion Hearing Date Set

Cases: Sanctions

Second District, Division 4 Reverses Sanctions Award For Failure to Meet Technical Requirements.      Here is one for all of you practitioners desiring to set up a CCP section 128.7 sanctions motion, correctly we might add.      Defendant served plaintiff with a notice of motion for sanctions in the amount of $7,022.50 under CCP section

Trial Discovery Sanctions: Second District, Division 1 Reverses Third-Party Subpoena Monetary Sanctions Based On Lack Of Statutory Basis

Cases: Sanctions

  Appellate Panel Does Not Condone Sanctioned Conduct, But Found No Discovery Law Basis To Sustain the Award.      As we have indicated before, attorney’s fees awards—whether mundane or imposed as a sanctions—must either have a contractual or statutory basis, depending on the type of award. The next case illustrates, even though the discovery conduct

Discovery Sanctions: $3,587.00 Deposition Sustained Because It Is Collateral And Not Independently Appealable Until Later

Cases: Appealability, Cases: Discovery, Cases: Sanctions

  Sixth District Provides a Good Lesson in Properly Timing Appeal of Discovery Sanctions Under $5,000.      This next unpublished case, in a 3-0 unpublished decision from the Sixth District, is a good reminder on when the appeal of smaller discovery sanctions orders—under $5,000—is properly made.      In Stough v. Klure, Case No. H034000 (6th

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