Wiginton v. CB Richard Ellis, Inc.

MEMORANDUM OPINIONS AND ORDER

ASHMAN, United States Magistrate Judge.

Plaintiffs have filed a Motion for Costs for Electronic Discovery.1 They argue that Defendant CB Richard Ellis, Inc. (“CBRE”) should bear the costs of searching CBRE’s email backup tapes to find documents containing pornographic terms and images, as well as documents relating to CBRE’s workplace environment generally, due to the large number of these types of documents that have been found in a controlled sampling. CBRE responds that only a small fraction of the emails that have been found contain arguably relevant material…