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Discovery
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Connecticut Employment Law Blog
Court: Pursuing Emotional Distress Claim in Harassment Case Opens Door to Discovery of Therapist and Medical Records
For companies involved in employment discrimination litigation, there is always a question of how far to push on discovery issues. A new case decided this week in U.S. District Court…
Life Sciences Legal Update
Report Says Litigation Discovery System is ‘Broken’
By Erin Bailey
The Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (“IAALS”) and the American College of Trial Lawyers Task Force on Discovery conclude in their Interim Report (“Report”) that the…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
OK, Discovery’s a Problem, But What Can Be Done About It?
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Martha Neil has written a piece titled OK, Discovery’s a Problem, But What Can Be Done About It? on abajournal.com. The piece looks at the problems facing the discovery process…
Insurance Law Hawaii
Insurer not Bound by Insured’s Factually Deficient Discovery Responses in Subrogation Litigation
When an insurer pursues a subrogation claim, can the defendant rely on the insureds' factually deficient discovery responses in a motion for summary judgment? The court in Great…
Chicago IP Litigation
Court Compels Discovery and Withholds Judgment on Sanctions
Square D Co. v. Elec. Soln's, Inc., No. 07 C 6294, Slip Op. (N.D. Ill., Jul. 22, 2008) (Moran, Sen. J.). Judge Moran granted plaintiffs' motion to reopen discovery and…
Mass Tort Defense
Shoe On The Other Foot: State/Plaintiff Criticized For Discovery Reponses
By Sean Wajert
Managing the potentially vast scope of discovery requests in life sciences industry litigation can be daunting. The discovery requests in such litigat
Boston ERISA & Insurance Litigation Blog
Notes for a Friday
I thought I would pass along a couple of things of interest that I read this week, before next week starts up with its own events. Taking up where my…
Aaron Morris' Business Law Alert
Subpoenas Don’t Trigger Anti-Slapp
By Aaron Morris
Plaintiff obtained a pre-filing discovery order in Ohio to aid in his effort to learn the identities of the anonymous individuals who had posted statements about him on the Internet…
North Carolina Business Litigation Report
Harco Nat’l Ins. Co. v. Grant Thornton LLP, December 27, 2006 (Tennille)(unpublished)
Plaintiff was entitled to discovery of documents relating to an arbitration proceeding involving similar claims, even though the legal issues were not identical, and also notwithstanding a confidentiality agreement entered…
Boston ERISA & Insurance Litigation Blog
What Effect Does MetLife v. Glenn Have on Discovery in Denial of Benefit Claims?
Apparently none, at least according to the first ruling on this question I have seen out of a court in the First Circuit. In a ruling by a magistrate judge,…