Treating e-mail as a "virtual water cooler," Americans send roughly 400 million messages a day from home and the office. Problem is, everything from I-love-yous to I'll-crush-yous can resurface in the courtroom.

In this report, CNNfn's Fred Katayama shows how e-mail files are resurrected.

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