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I think you just listed a whole bunch of reasons why that legal system is broken. It's IMHO quite questionable whether such a law suit must be insanely complex

• fpgeek 13y ago
  A lot of the complexity comes from this being the first case to deal with this kind of issue. That means a lot needed to be sorted out along the way (even such simple things as which legal issue should be considered first). Now that this ruling has been made (and assuming it holds up on appeal), the next case along the same lines will be much simpler. Some of those cases might not happen at all (since the expected result will now be clear).
• DannyBee 13y ago
  "It's IMHO quite questionable whether such a law suit must be insanely complex and involve hundreds of thousands of pages of documents." There is essentially some minimum amount of documentation necessary to resolve a lawsuit. For something that involves a class of many thousands of plaintiffs, works, and claims, needing essentially 10 pages per person (or whatever) is just not a lot. I mean, do you expect Google search to be 50 lines of code? Also note that part of the purpose of discovery is to get everyone's cards on the table. You are often required to produce any possibly relevant info, which in this day and age, includes large volumes of emails. The whole goal here is that there should be no surprises, and hopefully, the dispute should be resolvable without going to trial once everyone's hand is shown. Judges are overworked because the judiciary is underfunded. We are too busy making useless tanks to add to the collection we have in the desert.