> Given the totality of circumstances, the Court finds that Amazon’s behavior warrants no more relief except an admonition by this Court. Amazon and its counsel are admonished that their conduct during discovery was tantamount to bad faith. Similar conduct may lead to more serious sanctions.
Yea I read that and was shocked that after putting in all this effort on the taxpayer’s dime, they did absolutely nothing to punish Amazon or its executives.
I hate that this website doesn’t let you select text from within the document. But one part that stood out is emails that were withheld in discovery that claimed attorney-client privilege but had nothing in the email chain indicating content that would be subject to this. It seems like Amazon is abusing that to hide information from the justice system. I’ve heard that some other companies (Microsoft, Google) encourage employees to do this, but what’s in here is pretty brazen.
I hate that this website doesn’t let you select text from within the document.
Eh? Works for me on an old 2012 MBP and Safari 15.6.
As for the "looping in legal..." one weird trick that judges hate, eh, the discussions I've read in the past amounted to "how stupid do you assume judges to be?" Seems like a good way to get hammered in court.
> Given the totality of circumstances, the Court finds that Amazon’s behavior warrants no more relief except an admonition by this Court. Amazon and its counsel are admonished that their conduct during discovery was tantamount to bad faith. Similar conduct may lead to more serious sanctions.
That'll fix it.
Yea I read that and was shocked that after putting in all this effort on the taxpayer’s dime, they did absolutely nothing to punish Amazon or its executives.
I hate that this website doesn’t let you select text from within the document. But one part that stood out is emails that were withheld in discovery that claimed attorney-client privilege but had nothing in the email chain indicating content that would be subject to this. It seems like Amazon is abusing that to hide information from the justice system. I’ve heard that some other companies (Microsoft, Google) encourage employees to do this, but what’s in here is pretty brazen.
I hate that this website doesn’t let you select text from within the document.
Eh? Works for me on an old 2012 MBP and Safari 15.6.
As for the "looping in legal..." one weird trick that judges hate, eh, the discussions I've read in the past amounted to "how stupid do you assume judges to be?" Seems like a good way to get hammered in court.
Why wouldn’t they? Do you think anything of any real consequence will happen?
I mean ... they were admonished by the Judge that there could be more serious sanctions if they kept doing it! That's a real consequence, right there.