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cblr-1779	Sockwell, Daniel Long	Deterring Discovery-Driven Data Deletion	2014	6	.pdf	application/pdf	2072	122	58	To solve this problem, this Note proposes reforms to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that would prevent discovery costs from incentivizing so much data deletion. When she deletes an otherwise valuable email because of discovery costs, her company saves the dis- covery costs, but some other party loses matching benefits.10 If her company avoids paying a million dollar settlement, some plaintiff loses that same million dollars; from a net so- cial perspective, the loss of a million dollars is not avoided, but just redistributed.11 Indeed, after the email is deleted, a potential plaintiff is no better off than if the email were not accessible through discovery at all.12 In this case, a discov- ery regime designed to grant plaintiffs access to that email to allow companies to delete virtually any document when litigation is not anticipated).	cache/cblr-1779.pdf	txt/cblr-1779.txt