In an instructive ruling on e-discovery in complex cases, a federal judge in Newark has refused to block an extensive search of a defendant’s emails or to saddle the plaintiff with the cost of it.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael Hammer held Monday, in Juster Acquisition Co. v. North Hudson Sewerage Authority, 12-cv-3427, that although some of the requested search terms like "fee," debt" and "tax" "appear, at first blush, to be somewhat broad," he could not find them unreasonable given the nature of the dispute and the fact that the plaintiff had complied with the defendant’s own request to search for 100 words.
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