Imagine a job as a critic stuck week after week watching nothing but bad daytime soaps, and then having to write about them. That’s what it must be like to be a federal magistrate judge dealing with ongoing e-discovery disputes.
Magistrate Judge John Facciola in the D.C. District has had his share. A drama called Covad Communications Co. v. Revonet Inc. first aired last year and is now into its second season. In our latest episode, counsel for the defendant has told counsel for the plaintiff that if he doesn’t like receiving an Excel spreadsheet printed out in hard copy form across hundreds of pages, he can paste them together.
