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basically.saying.that.as.long.as.you.make.a.good.faith.effort.
and.establish.and.follow.good.practices.you.will.be.in.pretty.
good.shape.
1.2.3.20.3. National. Day. Laborer. Organizing. Network.
v.. U.S.. Immigration. and. Customs. Enforcement. Agency.
(S.D.N.Y.. -. 7. Feb,. 2011)
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This. case. is. particularly. inter-
esting.because.it.is.actually.a.Freedom.of.Information.Act.
(FOIA).case.in.which.the.plaintiff,.which.advocates.for.day.
laborers,. was. seeking. information. from. several. different.
federal. organizations. including. Immigrations. and. Custom.
Enforcement.(ICE).
The.plaintiff.was.requesting.documentation.regarding.the.
“Secure. Communities”. program. that. was. established. as. a.
way.for.the.federal.government.to.collaborate.with.state.and.
local.law.enforcement.on.immigration.laws.
What. is. interesting. in. this. case. is. Judge. Scheindlin's.
perspective.that.a.FOIA.request.for.documentation.could.
be. “informed”. by. the. Federal. Rules. of. Civil. Procedure,.
speciically.Rule.34.that.as.you.know.from.reading.above.
is.the.rule.that.describes.what.evidence.should.be.discov-
ered.and.produced.in.a.trial..She.said.that.when.a.litigant.
produces.documentation.“in.the.twenty-irst.century”.the.
amended.FRCP.should.be.referenced.to.understand.what.
should.be.expected.
This. case. it. well. into. the. electronic. evidence. questions.
because. the. dispute. was. speciically. about. what. ESI. the.
government. should. have. to. produce. and. how. it. should. be.
produced.
The.plaintiff's.irst.complaint.to.the.court.was.that.though.
they. requested. the. documents. in. native. format,. the. gov-
ernment. produced. them. in. pdf. format. which. made. them.
unsearchable..This.also.stripped.any.metadata.from.the.ESI.
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RSA.Conference,.New.E-Discovery.Case.Emphasizes.Attorney.Collaboration:.
https://365.rsaconference.com/blogs/ediscovery/2011/03/17/new-e-
discovery-.case-emphasizes-attorney-collaboration..Retrieved.2011-04-06.
