City of Colton, at *30-31.ДЇederal Rule of Civil Procedure Rule 34(b)(E) states: Furthermore, the United States argued that the production of electronically stored information was controlled by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Rule 34(b)(2)(E)(ii), which requires ESI to be produced as it is ordinarily maintained or in a reasonably useable form. The United States argued the case management order superseded the requirements of Rule 34(b). The Defendants claimed the United States was required to produce documents and ESI as they were kept in the usual course of business or organize and label the production to correspond to the Production Requests. One Defendant brought a motion to compel well into discovery, arguing the United States did not comply with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Rule 34(b)(2)(E)(i). 13, 2011).ДЄs the Court later commented on the production protocol, вЂњthe parties did not produce ESI in the manner in which it is kept in the usual course of business, which, at a minimum, would identify the provenance of the files and provide some context as to their meaning.вЂќ City of Colton, at *48.

The agreement was codified as a case management order. The original production fields included: beginning bates number, ending bates number, page count, CD volume name, producing party, and produced date. In a multi-party complex case, the parties agreed to the production of electronically stored information as TIFFs or JPEGs with fields of information that did not reflect the metadata of the native files.

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