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Originally Posted by Robert Schunk
Such a scattershot document search is known in US jurisprudence as a "fishing expedition", in which someone seeks to peruse potential evidence without genuine probable cause. The courts won't uphold it, as the targets are under no legal obligation to comply with such a request, as it is not a subpoena duces tecum, which provides the respondent with the chance to move for a court hearing to compel the issuer of the subpoena to show cause as to why the subpoena should not be quashed. In other words, the request has no legal authority backing it up.
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But what about her emails?