"we have provided thousands of pages of written responses and hundreds of thousands of documents" I see that all the time when people haven't actually provided the requested info, whether a company or a local, state, or federal agency. It's often a form of BS. Technically every DB entry could be considered a document, but if you haven't provided emails from the CEO, you haven't provided emails from the CEO.
It's a deliberate strategy, one I saw referenced a day or so ago elsewhere. Lawyers (or other parties engaged in litigation) will "overwhelm with kindness" in response to discovery requests by producing tremendous amounts of irrelevant material, often in cumbersome formats, in order to overwhelm opponents. Or as I've commented in another thread earlier today: attention and time are the ultimate nonfungible resources,…
Re: California says Facebook dodged privacy subpoenas
#21I think that's a separate thing from what I was talking about, though you can certainly do both at the same time.