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Monthly Archives: May 2007



In an utterly absurd ethics opinion, on March 14 the Alabama State Bar’s ethics panel found that “mining” for metadata to locate confidential information in “electronic documents” constitutes professional misconduct.
Alabama essentially comes out and tells counsel to look the other way when faced with a document laden with metadata, to essentially keep the wrapper on […]



In Gillespie v. Equifax Information Services, L.L.P., No. 06-1952 (May 3, 2007), the Seventh Circuit recently ruled that the Fair Credit Reporting Act’s fundamental requirement that “[e]very consumer reporting agency shall, upon request . . . clearly and accurately disclose to the consumer [a]ll information in the consumer’s file at the time of the request.” […]



The recent case of In re Sullivan, 2007 WL 987328 (Bankr.N.D.N.Y. 2007) follows a line of decisions from the US Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of New York that add teeth to the proposition that debtors should be compensated for the damages that arise from creditors systemic, continuing and egregious violations of the automatic […]