Facebook Inc. can’t unilaterally decide what electronically stored-information—including metadata—is responsive to a users’ requests for production, the Northern District of California held Oct. 14 (Campbell v. Facebook Inc., 2015 BL 340418, N.D. Cal., 5:13-cv-05996-PJH, 10/14/15).
Magistrate Judge Maria-Elena James rejected defendant Facebook’s objections to motions to compel ESI related to Facebook’s processing of its users’ private messages.
Facebook argued that it had produced responsive data and that it needn’t hand over information it deemed irrelevant or overly burdensome to produce. Facebook’s argument that it had already produced the source code that would explain the answers to the ...
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