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Bates Number Humor

[ #201056 ]
Wednesday April 16, @07:17PM
The Courts
First, the primer. Bates numbers are consequitive numbers stamped on every page of a document in discovery. So, as an example, if Shadow Wrought (my current login) was suing Sureft (my old login), Shadow Wrought would give Sureft pages labeled SW-000001 to SW-012345 and Sureft would give Shadow Wrought SUREFT-00001 to SUREFT-04321. So, now that you understand the basics, you'll get the humor.

Today one of my co-workers (and a fellow geek at heart) sent around a document that included this sample bates number: HGTTG-00042.

I think I'm the only one who caught it;-)


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  • FNORD-00023 would be too obvious?
  • I made sure to let my co-workers know I was the tech who generated CMR ticket 1337 when it came out. ;-)

    So what do you do when the discovery material isn't paper? I'm having to provide mailbox contents, and FRCP says "in original form", so that's what I'm doing - supplying the database that makes up the mailbox on DVD. Or do I not have to worry about it - Counsel will take care of those kinds of details?

    • So what do you do when the discovery material isn't paper? I'm having to provide mailbox contents, and FRCP says "in original form", so that's what I'm doing - supplying the database that makes up the mailbox on DVD. Or do I not have to worry about it - Counsel will take care of those kinds of details?

      IANAL, so I can only tell you the way we handle it with outside clients. Usually we just want the raw electronic data from you. If its e-mails usually its in a .pst file for each user. We have software th

      • Thanks! I was interested, because this is the first time I've gone through anything like this. I have already sat down with our Counsel, but they aren't really sure what they want, either. So I'm handing over the mailbox as I can extract it. GroupWise doesn't do .PST files - so I'm handing over the databases that make up a mailbox. I was just wondering how that kind of thing worked.

        Documenting all the steps I take might be hard - but that's my problem.

        Absolutely, I understand that you cannot give legal

  • Next will be NCC 00001701, right?
    • Indeed. Originally they thought it was going to be one off document, but then they had to add NCC 00001701A-D as well. I hear it's about enterprise implementations;-)
      • Trouble is, they destroy the original before they add the "A" version. Then destroy "A" before adding the "B" version, etc. Continuity gets to be a problem.
  • Any chance of a partial scan for proof and posterity?

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