美國 v. Salyer, 鉻. 在. S - 10 - 0061李錦記 [GGH], 2011 輪候冊 1466887 (及. 加州. 四月. 18, 2011)

“不像通常的發現產生糾紛不夠，當事人之間的糾紛 [在這種情況下] 涉及太多多生產, 在太多的格式, and whether the defense has been given a fair opportunity within the parameters of an adversary system of criminal justice to make use of that discovery.”

被告人Salyer, “一家大型食品加工企業一次性頭”被控敲詐, 偽造記錄，並違反了反壟斷法。發現的情況下是巨大的: “這可能是毫不誇張的狀態 1-2 涉及萬億字節的信息。“案中的證據已積累來源，並在各種格式存在, 包括OCR'd文件, 掃描和生產。PDF; 在搜索文本文件產生的電子文件; 紙質記錄; 企業數據庫的法醫形象; 法醫圖像和計算機檢獲有關公司 (searchable only with special software).  Recognizing the potential difficulties that might arise, 法院負責就發現的影響審判時間表.

除了發現的數量從許多來源編制 (並生產多種格式), several other “problems/issues” were identified that “complicated expeditious pre-trial review of the massive amounts of information” including that defense counsel lacked the resources to conduct a large scale review; that defense counsel was likely to have been “behind the technological knowledge curve when it comes to preparing an electronically based mega-case”; that defendant was the “sum total of the defense ‘corporate knowledge’” and as such needed to be substantially involved in the review of discovery (made more difficult by the need for defendant to acquire permission to travel to participate in that review and his need to return to his home by a set time each day); and the “inability to agree on the precise issues in dispute and the documents needed” a problem described by the court as related to defendant’s intent to present a broad defense “created out of alleged business custom and practice” rather than responding to the indictment allegations “head on.”

通過 法院拒絕，迫使政府以促進創建數據庫，以減輕被告的發現負擔, 建議根據“刑事司法法”的援助申請 : 電子發現法.