A new case from the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan has provided some guidance on what happens when a party in litigation gets a court order permitting it to review the contents of an opposing partys hard drives. As the court put it, unrestricted access would permit “wholesale rummaging” through the hard drive. The court ordered special procedures be used to limit the information disclosed to only information relevant to the litigation. The courts approach certainly presents a very reasonable approach to this thorny problem.”]

