Don’t Argue Gmail is Not Reasonably Accessible

Can a producing party argue for cost-shifting to the defendant based on proportionality for the production of work-related emails on a plaintiff’s gmail account?Owens v. Clear Wireless LLC, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 26698, 4-6 (D. Minn. Mar. 3, 2014).

Short answer is no, because the emails are not inaccessible to the producing party.

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The general rule in over the cost of producing discovery falls on the producing party.Owens, at *4, citing Oppenheimer Fund, Inc. v. Sanders, 437 U.S. 340, 358, 98 S. Ct. 2380, 57 L. Ed. 2d 253 (1978).

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Facebook, Gmail, Yahoo Users Warned to Change Passwords

A massive computer hack compromised over 2 million passwords on Facebook, Gmail and Yahoo.

By Marlisse Silver Sweeney

t's time to change your passwords. Jose Pagliery reported on CNNMoney yesterday that over 2 million Facebook, Gmail and Twitter passwords have been compromised in a massive hack. He notes the breach was caused by key logging software installed on computers around the world that resulted in a virus capturing the passwords and sending them through a server to the hackers. Of the companies hacked, Facebook users take the number one spot with 318,000 accounts. Gmail with 70,000 and Yahoo with 60,000 accounts are second and third—lucky them!

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