Topic
Discovery
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North Carolina Business Litigation Report
Settlement Agreements Are Discoverable
Today, Judge Tennille issued a very short order in Azalea Garden Board & Care, Inc. v. Vanhoy, granting a defendant's Motion to Compel production of a settlement agreement entered into between the…
Boston ERISA & Insurance Litigation Blog
On Discovery Problems and Solutions
Here’s an interesting law review article, passed along in detail by the Workplace Prof, on problems, and potential solutions, in managing discovery. Discovery, to beat what must now be a…
TortsProf Blog
Chronicle of Higher Education on Peer Review Discovery
The Chronicle of Higher Education has a story (link will explode in five days), quoting me, about Pfizer's efforts to obtain discovery into the peer review process. It is a…
North Carolina Business Litigation Report
Edgewater Services, Inc. v. Epic Logistics, Inc., May 24, 2007 (Jolly)(unpublished)
Plaintiff sought Defendant's psychiatric records in discovery to determine whether she had ever been treated for bipolar disorder. The Court determined that the Defendant had not met her burden of…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Government Responds to Skilling Supplemental Brief
By Ellen Podgor
Jeffrey Skilling filed a supplemental brief discussing the failure of the government to provide exculpatory material, specifically items now discovered as a result of the release of the Fastow Notes…
InsureReinsure
Sunshine in Litigation Act of 2007
On March 6, 2008, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved the Sunshine in Litigation Act of 2007 (the "Act").
Mass Tort Litigation Blog
Pfizer Denied Discovery of JAMA Confidential Peer-Reviewer Comments in Celebrex and Bextra Litigation
By joetort
As the Wall Street Journal reports -- see Pfizer Is Denied Access to JAMA Files, by Thomas M. Burton -- a magistrate judge in federal district court in Chicago has…
New York Attorney Malpractice Blog
Legal Malpractice in the Failure to Do Discovery?
Plaintiff, a kid on in-line skates, runs into debris at a construction site. He hires defendant attorneys to sue the construction defendants and the land owner for debris on a…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
The Nigerian Barge Case – Will It Sink?
By Ellen Podgor
Tom Kirkendall's Houston ClearThinkers has the Motion to Dismiss filed on behalf of a former Merrill Lynch executive who is awaiting retrial (see here). As anticipated, the Fastow Notes -…
TortsProf Blog
Peer Review & Discovery
I'm traveling (and writing this in a dark hotel room with the rest of my family asleep, so forgive incoherence), and so haven't been following it all carefully, but In…