In Re WASTE MANAGEMENT OF TEXAS, INC.

OPINION

Opinion by

Chief Justice MORRISS.

This five-year-old antitrust action by Josh Bray d/b/a Sanitation Solutions against Waste Management of Texas, Inc., claims antitrust violations 1 by Waste Management in Lamar County and remains in the discovery phase. In late 2009 — in response to an order that compelled the production of various internal business records but reserved for a later decision the question of whether the production must include metadata 2 — Waste Management produced responsive records in the format of its choice, Adobe portable document format (PDF). By an explicit exception…