A long time ago in the e-discovery world, sometime pre-2006, the generally accepted practice was to de-duplicate documents within each custodian's files. For example, if Custodian A had two copies of the same document in his files and Custodian B had one copy of that same document, parties would produce only one of the copies from Custodian A's files but still produce the copy from Custodian B's files.
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