A female supervisor at a manufacturing company
alleged that she was discriminated against and terminated because of her
gender. She engaged bit-x-bit to analyze the metadata of certain key electronic
documents to determine whether they were backdated in an attempted cover-up.
Working with plaintiff’s counsel, bit-x-bit
obtained and examined electronic documents produced by the defendant company,
which supposedly documented the company’s complaints about the female
supervisor. bit-x-bit provided a detailed expert report showing that the ESI
metadata did not match the date of the documents, which supported the
conclusion that the documents had been backdated.
The federal court jury
awarded the female supervisor $950,000 in compensatory damages and $12.5
million in punitive damages, which, according to the female supervisor’s attorneys,
was largely based on bit-x-bit’s computer forensic testimony.