Meta’s outside attorneys just filed a letter to update Judge Chhabria about the contents of the 18,000 Meta documents that had been inadvertently sequestered by Lighthouse, its e-discovery vendor.
Here’s what the attorneys say:
● Approximately 3,200 of these documents were previously produced to Plaintiffs. Therefore, they need no further review or processing, as they are already in Plaintiffs’ possession.
● Approximately 3,400 of these documents were previously reviewed for a null set review under the ESI Order and were determined to be non-responsive and therefore required no additional review. Given these are not responsive documents, they need not be produced.
● For the remainder of the documents (approximately 11,000), a large proportion were previously reviewed prior to the sequestration and deemed non-responsive. For the rest, Meta has nearly completed its review and will take the next steps outlined below.● Monday, February 10, 2025: Meta intends to make an initial, primary production to Plaintiffs of nonprivileged English language responsive documents. Based on current estimates, this production will likely be fewer than 1,000 documents, including family members.
● Tuesday, February 11, 2025: Meta intends to produce to Plaintiffs any documents with partial redactions for privilege and a privilege log, and any remaining non-privileged, English language responsive documents.