But at Bragg vs Linden Lab issue; I remember this issue; Linden Lab was right. Bragg had used illegal ways to hack auction system. He was aware of what he was doing was illegal.

That all said, there is definitely Linden Lab’s attorneys are under an obligation not to object frivolously and to comply with facially reasonable requests. But I’d be extremely surprised if Linden Lab complied with a few of these (particularly #110) without putting up a significant fight.

The above, if taken seriously, would be an absolutely insane amount of material. I’m also thinking about confidentiality issues here. If I were named above, and LL provided details of my correspondence with them to Bragg which were not directly mandated by the courts and which I considered broke agreements, would I then have a case? Obviously it isn’t an issue for me, given my not-buying-any-sims status, but I wouldn’t be surprised if somebody like Anshecorp had a severe problem with such practices.

I generally do not file document requests that are as broad as #110. I’ve found they just don’t accomplish much, and unnecessarily annoy the lawyers on the other side. That said, there’s a reasonable argument for doing so — basically, you take the most extreme position you can plausibly take, and so does the other side, and it works itself out because you’re both doing what is called “positional bargaining.”

I, personally, dislike litigating that way and I try to find middle ground on issues like this fairly early on. I have typically had good working relationships with opposing counsel, though, and that may not be true here. Since I don’t know the personalities involved, I’m not sure if working things like this out is possible or not (and the fact that they couldn’t agree on a Rule 26(f) report earlier leads me to believe it might not be).

Anyway, what usually happens with requests like #110 is this: the other side sends over the documents that it thinks the court would hold are relevant to the current suit. Then, if the guy who made the requests feels he is really entitled to more, he has to move to compel (basically, ask the court to make them produce the rest of the documents).

As for the motivation for request #110, there’s no class action potential here as Bragg is uniquely situated, and moreover, you don’t need the names of everyone to do that anyway.  My guess is that it’s just a longshot attempt to get Linden Lab to send over two trucks of documents that Bragg could then point to as evidence that they “sold” (e.g. transferred ownership) of a lot of virtual land — a key issues since Linden Lab is claiming it just leased server space when it “sold” land.  The other way to look at it is somewhat critical: requiring Linden Lab to actually collect all of that data would probably be expensive and time consuming.  Given that there were over one hundred document requests (and I’m reminded that I’ve been involved in multi-million dollar patent suits with fewer) some might think that was the intent.  There’s no real way to know Bragg’s motivation, of course, but it’s certainly not for class action purposes, and the only two possibilities I can come up with off the top of my head are the two I named above.

“real name, last known address” for all those Lindens?

As well as “Documents sufficient to identify each purchaser of virtual land from Defendant Linden”? Seems like that would be a long list, is he planning on filing a class action suit? Why would he need to know the identity of people purchasing virtual land years later?

Interesting, tho. I’m especially curious about the documents that went to investors. Those might prove enlightening.