Email Discovery "Monstrosity"
Yet another example of the discovery quagmire created by widespread email use on construction projects. Here, in producing more than 3,000 emails, the attachments to the emails were separated from the emails due to some type of software incompatibility. This snafu gave rise to a heated discovery battle over whether the owner had to re-produced the emails with restored attachments (very expensive) and if so who pays. Bottom line: the owner was ordered to re-produce the emails, with attachments, at its expense.
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