Statute
Rule 30(b)(6)
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SDNY Blog
Judge Cote: Corporate Representative Deposition Testimony Must Be Based on Personal Knowledge to Be Admissible at Trial
In an opinion yesterday, Judge Cote ruled inadmissible certain deposition designations that a group of defendants wanted to use at a forthcoming antitrust trial because the witnesses were corporate representatives…
Business and Commercial
Seyfarth Shaw Submits Comments On Needed Reform To Rule 30(b)(6)
By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. and Julie Yap Seyfarth Synopsis: Seyfarth Shaw submitted comments to the Federal Advisory Committee on Civil Rules regarding needed reform to Rule 30(b)(6), the rule…
SDNY Blog
Judge Scheindlin, Creating Split, Rules That Locally Served 30(b)(6) Subpoena Can Require Information Available Only From Foreign Office
In an opinion today, Judge Scheindlin ruled that Bank Hapoalim, a non-party Israeli bank, was required to produce a Rule 30(b)(6) witness to testify about information originating in Israel: Even…
Outside Inhouse Lawyer Blog
Verifying Interrogatories Can Result in Deposition of In-house Counsel and Expense
By Grace Healy
Two big lessons can be learned from an interesting decision by Magistrate Payson in Tailored Lighting, Inc. v. Osram Sylvania Products, Inc., decided last week in the US District Court…
The Contingency
Bad 30(b)(6) Witnesses Justified Draconian Sanction
A different Draco. The Seventh Circuit upheld dismissal of a complaint as a sanction for failing to abide by an order compelling plaintiffs to present knowledgeable witnesses to testify at…