Friday, April 13, 2012

E-discovery dispute over RRA data grinds on

Qtask, the California software company caught up in the Scott Rothstein Ponzi scheme, has won a victory in Fort Lauderdale bankruptcy court, but the dispute over its data isn’t totally resolved yet.

The case has broader implications as society deals with issues involving online privacy and the protection of data.

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Raymond Ray recently ruled that Qtask should retain control over any data on its servers that is not related to the Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler law firm bankruptcy.

Qtask was a web-based project management and communication system that Rothstein invested in. He also used the system at his firm.

Qtask and its founder, Reichart Von Wolfsheild, continue to be the gatekeepers or custodian of passwords for clients on Qtask system that included a government military contractor called PhaseSpace. The U.S. Attorneys office had filed motions seeking to protect the PhaseSpace data on behalf of the U.S. Navy, Army and Air Force.

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Source: bizjournals.com
By: Paul Brinkmann

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