Civil Rights
Jul. 7, 2012
eDiscovery: ESI and unreasonable searches and seizures
What deadlines must the federal government meet when performing privilege reviews concerning computer data it has collected in the course of an investigation?
A. Marco Turk
Emeritus Professor, CSU Dominguez Hills
Email: amarcoturk.commentary@gmail.com
A. Marco Turk is a contributing writer, professor emeritus and former director of the Negotiation, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding program at CSU Dominguez Hills, and currently adjunct professor of law, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law.
The question. What deadlines must the federal government meet when performing privilege reviews concerning computer data it has collected in the course of an investigation? On May 17, U.S. District Judge Dora L. Irizarry became the first judge in the 2nd U.S. Circuit to address this question. She ruled in favor of the main defendant in U.S. v. Metter, et al. No. 10-CR-600 (DLI) (E.D.N.Y., May 17, 2012). On June 15, federal prosecutors in New York filed a notice of their int...
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