The Judge decided to err on the side of evidence preservation, which I’m not sure is a good idea. The act of “erring” might be evidence of the Judge being an idiot, so we’ll see. I bet most Judges are not learned in the ways of “hacking” vs “cracking.”
Everybody is forgetting ..... What did the defense lawyer do?
This is not new territory for this type of civil action. I’ve been on all 3 sides of this type of problem. As the ‘company’, as the ‘consultant’ and as an employee.