The California Court of Appeal has issued a rare guidance on third parties’ obligations to produce electronically stored information when subpoenaed, according to attorneyGeorge Wailes, a director of Carr McClellan Ingersoll Thompson & Horn, in this recent blog post.
The guidance stems from a recent case, Vasquez v. California School of Culinary Arts, Inc. (Sallie Mae), where the plaintiffs served a business records subpoena on Sallie Mae, requesting student loan files. Sallie Mae said the burden of reviewing and copying the 800 files would cost $60,000 explains Wailes, so Vasquez altered their request to make it more specific, but Sallie Mae again objecte