Special Master Maura Grossman Issues New Validation Protocol For Broiler Chicken Antitrust Cases

On January 3, 2018, Special Master Maura Grossman issued an Order crafting a new validation protocol for the In Re Broiler Chicken Antitrust Litigation, 1:16-cv-08637, currently pending in the Northern District of Illinois. The Order covers a wide range of topics ranging from deduplication and threading to culling and keyword search. However, the protocol is most notable for Special Master Grossman's validation protocol, which could work for a variety of matters, whether the review of the data to be validated uses linear review, TAR, or even keyword culling.