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SunSeeker

(57,281 posts)

14. Electronic documents can be renumbered.

Reply to Sogo (Original post)

Mon Nov 17, 2025, 03:54 PM

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It's not like the old days when they actually used a Bates stamper to physically put numbers on hard copies of documents.

BUT, many of these documents are out there and have been seen by many people after years of litigation. If specific docs coming out of DOJ suddenly have different Bates numbers than they did previously, we will know they are tampering with docs.

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