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Civil Procedure Keyed to Marcus
McPeek v. Ashcroft
Facts
McPeek is an employee of the Department of Justice (DOJ). Once he was given a promotion to the assistant director of a bureau under the department of Justice, he claims his boss, the then-director, had sexually harassed him for two years. McPeek filed a formal complaint and a settlement was reached. It required confidentially and McPeek’s transfer to another department. In this case McPeek, states that the agreement was not held confidential and that he received retaliatory actions against him in his new position. During discovery McPeek requested that back up computer files being offered. The Defendants argue this will be too costly to produce. This is because there is no system wide back up system. Each building has storage for files but it is to prevent damage for a system crash, not to preserve or archive these materials. There is no exact way to predict what will be found and what will be, as all emails of any particular employee are not all kept in these back up files. Also to make these files readable they will have to be restored which is where the cost comes from. To date the DOJ has refused to restore these backup files and runs the risk the judge will issue a jury instruction discussing there lack of cooperation.
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