Judge Urges Colleague to Order White House E-Mails Preserved
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A U.S. magistrate judge urged a federal judge yesterday to order the White House to preserve copies of all its e-mails, rejecting arguments by the Bush administration.
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federal judge in New York, complaining that the Bush administration &quot;shows an indifference&quot; to the freedom of information laws, has ordered the Pentagon and other agencies to produce a list
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(InfoWorld) - Intel may have lost some internal e-mails that the company is required to produce in aÂ lawsuitÂ brought against it by Advanced Micro DevicesÂ (AMD), lawyers for the company said Monday. In a letter to U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Farnan Jr., one of Intel's lawyers revealed that some internal e-mails were missing, despite the company's efforts to preserve documents related to the case. "Intel is taking this matter very seriously. It very much regrets this happened," wrote Richard Horowitz, a partner at Potter, Anderson & Corroon, which represents Intel. Horowitz blamed the possible loss of e-mails on human error. For instance, when Intel employees were instructed to retain e-mails on their hard drives, some employees did not move e-mails from their sent folder to the hard drives, assuming that the company's e-mail servers would preserve them. Instead, the e-mail servers regularly delete e-mails after a certain amount of time has passed, he said. Other employees wrongly assumed that Intel's IT department was automatically saving their e-mails, while some may not have saved all of their e-mails, Horowitz said. In addition, Intel failed to notify hundreds of employees to retain e-mails related to the case, he said. The allegedly lost e-mails were generated "primarily" after AMD filed suit against Intel on June 27, 2005, but earlier e-mails could not be ruled out as among those missing, Horowitz said. In a related filing to the court, AMD blasted Intel's apparent failure to preserve the missing e-mails. "Through what appears to be a combination of gross communication failures, an ill-conceived plan of document retention and lackluster oversight by outside counsel, Intel has apparently allowed evidence to be destroyed," AMD said, noting that Intel continued to allow e-mails to be deleted from its servers after the lawsuit was filed. "Everything that could have gone wrong did go wrong," AMD said. AMD and Intel are scheduled to discuss the document retention failures at a status meeting on March 7. AMD demanded in its letter to the court that Intel be required to give a full accounting of its document "preservation problems" no later than March 21. AMD's 2005 suit alleges that Intel engaged in anti-competitive practices to bolster a monopolistic position in the PC processor market. AMD claims that Intel coerced 38 hardware manufacturers, including DellÂ and Sony, into using only Intel processors or discontinuing use or promotion of AMD products. The alleged threats include forcing manufacturers into exclusive relationships, or offering deep discounts or marketing subsidies in exchange for discontinuing the use of AMD products. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, covers Intel operations in North America, Asia, and Europe. The suit was based in part on the findings of a Japanese anti-trust investigation, which found in March 2005 that Intel had abused its market position to restrain competition in Japan's microprocessor market. Â
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Documents related to a whistle-blower lawsuit that led to a text-messaging sex scandal involving the mayor must be turned over to the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News, a judge ruled Tuesday.
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An order for civil servants to delete old e-mails could lead to crucial information being destroyed, a senior MP says.
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An embattled prosecutor facing a contempt charge for deleting e-mails was grilled Friday by a federal judge who said he should have known better than to erase material he had been ordered to turn over.
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Scathing words yesterday from the federal judge overseeing Microsoft's compliance with its antitrust decree, accompanied an order that effectively extends the DOJ's oversight period into the next US presidential administration.
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By Byron Rohrig (812) 464-7426 or rohrigb@courierpress.com  Someone, adding the note "This is for real," forwarded an e-mail purportedly from Stephen T. Heck, executive director of the Indiana Association of School Principals.
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A federal judge yesterday called the Bush administration's handling of a Hurricane Katrina housing program "a legal disaster" and ordered officials to explain a computer system that can neither precisely count evacuees nor provide reasons they were denied aid.
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A federal judge ordered the Bush administration yesterday to tell him whether two CIA interrogation videos destroyed in 2005 were relevant to a case before him.
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Top managers at Microsoft Corp. told employees to destroy evidence contained in old e-mail during 2000, even as the company faced several antitrust lawsuits at the time, court documents filed by Burst.
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WASHINGTON -- A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Bush administration to tell him whether two CIA interrogation videos destroyed in 2005 were relevant to his case.
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(InfoWorld) - A prominent spam research organization based in London will ignore a US$11.7 million judgment against it by a U.S. federal judge since it can't be enforced in the U.K. Steven Linford, chief executive officer of the Spamhaus Project, said Friday the lawsuit was filed by David Linhardt, whose e-mail messages that advertised bargain goods were considered spam by his organization. The judgment was handed down on Wednesday in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois. The Spamhaus Project compiles a constantly updated list of computers that are sending unsolicited bulk e-mail. The list is used by major security and technology vendors, including Microsoft Corp. The Spamhaus Project has been targeted before in the U.S. by lawsuits from known spammers. Spamhaus officials don't show up in court, and the result is a default judgment against Spamhaus, Linford said. Linford said the plaintiffs mislead U.S. judges by claiming Spamhaus is headquartered in the U.S. Spamhaus has even informed spammers that they should file lawsuits in the U.K., but most won't since their bulk e-mail operations -- while often complying with U.S. law -- would violate antispam laws in the U.K. "It's every spammer's dream to be able to sue us," Linford said. No U.S. bulk mailer has filed a case in the U.K. since under British law foreigners who file lawsuits are responsible for the defendants' legal fees if they lose, Linford said. Spam comprises up to 90 percent of all e-mail, and its senders have shown increasing technical proficiency at evading measures to block unsolicited messages, Linford said. The Spamhaus Project blocks some eight billion to 10 billion spam messages a day, he said. Â
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The National Archives wants a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit seeking quick access to records about a health care task force Hillary Rodham Clinton headed as first lady, or delay the release for about a year.
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Judge halts guilty plea by ex-AOL employee who sold e-mail addresses, questions new anti-spam law. NEW YORK  - A federal judge has refused to accept a guilty plea from a former America Online employee
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A federal judge on Friday ordered Time magazine to turn over documents for a former White House aide to use in his defense to perjury and other charges in the CIA leak case.
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The White House has acknowledged recycling its backup computer tapes of e-mail before October 2003, raising the possibility that many electronic messages Â including those pertaining to the CIA leak case Â have been taped over and are gone forever.