Apple Urges Sanctions Against Quinn Emanuel Lawyers in Chip Suit

Apple Inc. told a federal judge that Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and individual attorneys should be sanctioned for failing to act on “the most consequential email you can get from a client” during a Wednesday hearing in its trade secrets lawsuit against chip startup Rivos Inc.

Quinn Emanuel countered that Apple is exaggerating the events surrounding defendant Wen Shih-Chieh’s deletion of a folder containing confidential Apple documents and argued the tech giant failed to prove that electronically stored information has been lost or can’t be replaced through alternate discovery. Magistrate Judge Nathanael Cousins of the US District ...