Medtronic Sofamor Danek, Inc. v. Michelson

*552ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART DEFENDANT MICHELSON’S MOTION TO COMPEL ELECTRONIC MAIL MESSAGES AND DATA AND REQUEST FOR APPOINTMENT OF SPECIAL MASTER

VESCOVO, United States Magistrate Judge.

Before the court is the January 31, 2003 motion of defendant Gary K. Michelson to compel the plaintiff, Medtronic Sofamor Danek, Inc., to produce approximately 996 network backup tapes, containing, among other things, electronic mail, plus an estimated 300 gigabytes of othbr electronic data that is not in a backed-up format, all of which contains items potentially responsive to discovery…