In IDC Financial Publishing, Inc. v. Bonddesk Group, LLC (15-cv-1085-pp, 2017 WL 4863202 (E.D. Wis. Oct. 26, 2017)), the Eastern District of Wisconsin granted IDC’s motion to compel the production of more than 600 documents that had previously been produced by Bonddesk with extensive non-responsive redactions applied.

Bonddesk argued that the applied redactions were necessary to protect confidential business
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Chief Justice Roberts commented that the newly amended Federal Rule of Civil Procedure, Rule 26 “crystalizes the concept of reasonable limits in discovery through increased reliance on the common-sense concept of proportionality.”  This common sense approach was recently embraced by a Special Master, and then approved by the District Court Judge, in the products liability case In re Takata Airbag

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