Legal Opinion
Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. v. Superior Court
California Court of Appeal
Decided December 3, 2004No. H027029PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
PREMO, J.
In this discovery dispute the parties disagree about whether the demanding party or the responding party should pay the cost (possibly as much as $1.9 million) for recovering usable information from the responding party’s computer backup tapes. We conclude that in a proper case, Code of Civil Procedure, section 2031, subdivision (g)(1) (hereafter section 2031(g)(1)) requires the demanding party to pay that expense. The determination of a proper case is a factual matter best left to the discretion of the trial court.
I. Factual and Procedural Background
Plaintiff, Lexar Media,…
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