News-Journal has two stories about Ernestine Manuel who filed a complaint against Texas State Technical College Marshall on July 1, 2004, alleging that she was subjected to a "racially hostile environment" while she was employed as an accountant in the school's business office. The judge who is handling her case instructed defense lawyers to bring someone "with knowledge of e-mailing systems" at the local college, because he complained that e-mail correspondence he had requested was supplied in such a form as to make it useless.

He also instructed TSTC to conduct an e-mail search that not only includes "original terms" mentioned in his order for discovery before Manuel's trial, but also new keywords, including work force commission, human rights and audit.

So Texas State Technical College restored several backups and used GWAVA Reveal in order to find the evidence the judge asked for in this legal case.