Request for Independent Forensic Data Expert Denied by Court

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Request for Independent Forensic Data Expert Denied by Court

In Rivera v. Costco Wholesale Corp., Puerto Rico Magistrate Judge Hector L. Ramos-Vega denied the pro se plaintiff’s request for an independent forensic data expert “because it lacks merit”, after the plaintiff refused to accept defendant's explanation regarding alleged discrepancies in the timestamps of some of the emails defendant produced that were due to the use of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) for standardizing timestamps. The post Reque…