Victoria Ryan v. Editions Limited West, Inc.

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• upholding 26 27 1 The motion also proposes adding a claim for Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress 28 (“IIED”) (Doc. 34-1 at 4), but as Officers’ Response points out (Doc. 41 at 3), this claim is already in the FAC. (See Doc. 19.
• A party has a duty to preserve documents when it 22 has “some notice that the documents were potentially relevant to the litigation”
• A party has a duty to preserve documents when it has “some notice that the 9 documents were potentially relevant to the litigation.” (quotation omitted)
• “But, the 6 district court provided no explanation for the determination that twenty percent was the 7 appropriate amount to deduct” for block billing.
• “It was within the district court’s discretion to reduce the requested fee 11 amount to account for the potential inflation of hours that may result from block 12 billing….”
• “Indeed, we, along with our 4 sister circuits, have long recognized that a contractually-based claim generally possesses the extra 5 element necessary to remove it from the ambit of the Copyright Act's express preemption 6 provision.”

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