"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 s

"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.