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In his ruling Monday, Phillips said he spent more than 12 hours going through about one-third of the documents, which included innocuous memos, some documents that already had been made public, a "power plant tour memo detailing extraordinarily privileged and trade secret materials such as phone numbers for making room reservations, dinner plans and flight itinerary," a copy of a newspaper article, and pricing information readily available on the Internet.

Including such documents "clearly and convincingly demonstrate that defendants did not review their documents thoroughly but, in this court's opinion, literally and figuratively dumped two boxes of documents on the court's desk and expected the court to do the work," Phillips wrote.

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