Sanctions

This past summer, Kilpatrick Townsend Senior E-Discovery Attorney Katie King participated in an E-Discovery Sanctions webinar, where she shared practice tips to protect your clients and your reputation.  Learn more about those tips here.

Two of the most compelling discovery sanction cases of the past year are Klipsch Group., Inc. v. ePRO E-Commerce Ltd. and Ronnie Van Zant, Inc. v. Pyle, both decided in the Second Circuit. In the first, the court awarded $2.68 million in discovery sanctions in a case valued at a mere $20,000. In the second, the court issued an adverse inference when a defendant failed to preserve text messages held by a non-party. The implications of both decisions appear far-reaching and critically important for those involved in the discovery process.