Herbalife class-action discovery costs expected to be $1 mill+

Defendant discovery costs in the Circle Of Success class-action are expected to top one million dollars.

To date individual defendants have collectively spent $128,980 responding to discovery requests.

Discovery sought from Herbalife distributor defendants Mary Holloway, Ryan Baker, Alcides Mejia Jr., Carol Rosenau, Alan Rodriguez, Disney di Martinez, Gabriel Sandoval, Jillian Addy, Paulina Riveros, Danielle Grace and Michael Katz includes;

email accounts

social media data (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, SnapChat, Telegram)

stored Google Drive data

cell phone data

WhatsApp communications

laptop imaging

hard copy documents

stored Dropbox data

stored Box Cloud data

zoom recordings

website information

stored iCloud data

desktop imaging

PayPal account data

Voxer communications

data stored on thumb drives

iPad imaging and

cell phone data

Most of the costs associated with production are related to processing collected data.

E.g. hosting the data to be made available currently costs $10,560 a month. This amount is expected to
‘significantly increase as data is promoted to a “Review” stage’
.

These figures were disclosed in a January 25th Status Report pertaining to discovery.

In sum, Defendants have incurred $128,980 to date in responding to Plaintiffs’ discovery requests in this action, excluding Quarles & Brady attorneys’ fees.

Defendants project that the cost of obtaining, processing, and overseeing the remaining document collections will be approximately $110,000.

Defendants further estimate that they will incur substantial additional costs relating to the contract attorney review of ESI, which is estimated to be in excess of $410,000.

Accounting for additional hosting fees and Quarles & Brady fees, Defendants estimate their total costs incurred in responding to Plaintiffs’ interrogatories and requests for production in this action will easily surpass $1 million.

Bear in mind these are 
individual 
defendants too. The
case against Herbalife
itself was
split
back in 2018.

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Discovery is being sought from eleven Herbalife distributor defendants: Mary Holloway, Ryan Baker, Alcides Mejia Jr., Carol Rosenau, Alan Rodriguez, Disney di Martinez, Gabriel Sandoval, Jillian Addy, Paulina Riveros, Danielle Grace, and Michael Katz, encompassing digital communications and device imaging.

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