Federal agency spends $6 million on e-discovery.

• Position: E-DISCOVERY - Brief article

The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) spent nearly 9% of its annual budget responding to a discovery request for documents in a case involving Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.

According to Information Week, an OFHEO attorney agreed to a search of backup tapes. The search, which involved 400 search terms supplied by plaintiffs' attorneys, resulted in more than 600,000...