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Discovery
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Drug & Device Law
New Proportionality Language for Florida Rules
By Susanna Moldoveanu, Adaeze Ashiedu
For our friends practicing in the Sunshine State, we want to highlight new rules amendments which took effect on January 1, 2025. Most notably, Florida joins states around the country…
Drug & Device Law
Treating Physicians May Be Deposed as Experts
By Bexis
The decision in Burton v. AbbVie, Inc., 2024 WL 3207008 (C.D. Cal. Feb. 21, 2024), presented an interesting, if somewhat arcane, discovery question: whether a plaintiff’s treating physician, listed as…
E-Discovery
“The Prison Discovery Crisis”
The title of this post is the title of this new article authored by James Stone now available via SSRN. Here is its abstract:For incarcerated people litigating pro se, the…
Drug & Device Law
MDL Master Complaint — What’s the Point?
Is the question we are asking ourselves after reading Butler v. 3M Company, 2024 WL 5054884 (S.D. Ohio Dec. 9, 2024). Because if plaintiffs get to amend their complaints post-remand…
The Fiduciary Litigator
Court Affirmed An Order Requiring An Executor And Trustee To Produce Over Twenty Years Of Documents
In In re Mason, a trial court entered a discovery order requiring a defendant, who was an executor and trustee, to produce documents and information to the plaintiffs, his children.…
Tort Talk
Superior Court Defines Good Cause Requirement or IMEs or DMes
In the case of Verba v. Erie Insurance Exchange, No. 2633 EDA 2023 (Pa. Super. Oct. 31, 2024 Panella, P.J.E., King, J., and Stevens, P.J.E) (Op. by King, J.), the…
New York Probate Lawyer Blog
New York Will Contests Involve Pre-Objection Discovery
Estate planning in New York is important since it provides a procedure for a person to document the manner in which assets are to be disposed of at death. There…
eDiscovery Today Blog
Prompts and Outputs Must Be Produced, Court Rules: eDiscovery Case Law
By Doug Austin
In Tremblay v. OpenAI, Inc., California Magistrate Judge Robert M. Illman rejected plaintiff’s contentions that prompts and outputs that did not support Plaintiffs’ claims were protected by attorney work product…
Resolving Discovery Disputes
The Court has Inherent Power to Impose Discovery Sanctions
In the case of City of L.A. v. PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLC (2024) 17 C5th 46 the California Supreme Court unanimously held that the Discovery Act gives courts independent authority to impose…
Family
Mom Has Right to Discovery of Dad’s Inheritance in Child Support Dispute
By Kathryn Owen
Tennessee child support case summary on discovery in family law. Mom has right to see discovery about dad’s inheritance in child support contest. Lisa L. Collins. V. Sean R. Harrison…