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related. to. e-discovery. and. electronic. evidence.. Those. were.
the. issues. of. what. should. be. considered. accessible. and. not.
reasonably. accessible;. and. how. to. shift. costs. appropriately.
when.there.was.a.cost.and.resource.burden.involved.in.the.
production.of.evidence.
Zubulake.was.able.to.produce.over.450.pages.of.what.
she.considered.to.be.relevant.e-mails..However,.the.defen-
dants. produced. only. 350. pages. of. documents. total,. of.
which. only. 100. pages. were. of. e-mail.. The. plaintiff. asked.
that. UBS. locate. more. e-mail. by. searching. backup. tapes.
and.other.archives.
But. UBS. argued. that. was. an. undue. burden. and. would.
be.a.huge.expense..They.requested.that.the.courts.rely.on.a.
former.ruling.called. Rowe .( Rowe.Entertainment,.Inc.v..The.
William. Morris. Agency— . SDNY. 2002). that. had. set. forth.
an. eight-factor. test. to. decide. who. should. pay. costs.. The.
defense.felt.that.based.on.that.precedent.any.costs.incurred.
to. recover. and. produce. the. requested. e-mails. should. be.
shifted.to.the.plaintiff.
However,. Judge. Scheindlin. disagreed.. She. felt. that. the.
older.decision.unfairly.favored.the.shifting.of.costs.away.from.
the.responding.party.and.that.its.eight.factors.were.used.too.
much.like.a.checklist,.while.she.advocated.a.seven-factor.list.
with.the.factors.listed.in.order.of.importance.and.cost-shifting.
decisions.being.weighed.accordingly. *
The. court. also. connected. this. discussion. to. the. idea. of.
accessibility. because. the. judge. argued. that. the. burden. of.
producing.documentation.is.often.predicated.on.the.ease.of.
access..If.recovering.and.producing.electronic.evidence.was.
unduly. burdensome. and. expensive,. it. would. affect. the. bal-
ance.of.the.decision.on.who.should.pay.
So,. beginning. with. accessibility,. in. these. irst. and. third.
opinions,. Judge. Scheindlin. described. ive. categories. of.
*. Case.Law.Update.and.E-Discovery.News,.Recent.E-Discovery.and.Computer.
Forensics. Court. Decisions,. 3(August;. 8),. 2003:. https://www.krollontrack.
com/newsletters/clu_0803.html..Retrieved.2011-04-06.