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California Court Decides States First E-Discovery: Court Requires Demanding Party to Pay Reasonable Costs of Necessary Electronic Data Restoration
December 21, 2004
John P. Phillips and Natasha Sung
The path to obtaining electronic discovery just got clearer and more expensive for parties in California. For the first time, a California Court of Appeal has addressed the issue of which party should pay for costly electronic data restoration in response to discovery requests.