This judge wants to lean on the idea that 2000 pages is a massive pile of documents, and insurmountable task. That’s nonsense. 20,000 pages would be a lot. At 200,000 the idea that it’s impossible to make the error free would have some weight. But 2000? As someone with experience redacting sensitive information from documents, that’s just not that much. Give them a few weeks, by all means, but don’t act like it can’t be done.
But even more than that this just another example of the system looking out for rich people. Surrendering documents is routine in court cases, I don’t hear this kind of things all the time. Because of that I doubt that if the documents were instead financial documents belonging to poor people the judge would express the same concern. But the consequences of an error could be just as grave and just as irrevocable. It’s just that we value the reputation of rich people over the lives of poor people.
