A party asked to produce remotely stored emails in “native format” should do more than just forward them to preserve the original data, a federal judge has held, but declined to hold the party in contempt for failing to do so.

In Sexton v. Lecavalier, 1:13-cv-08557, handed down Friday, Southern District Judge Analisa Torres (See Profile) also refused to sanction the party requesting contempt for bad faith.