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Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Proposed Amendments to Rules 30, 31, and 33: New Limits on Scope of Discovery Applied to Depositions and Interrogatories
My series of posts on the proposed FRCP amendments to be voted on by the Judicial Conference next week continues with Rules 30, 31, and 33.In the amendments published for…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
More Proposed Limitations on the Scope of Discovery
In my last post, I addressed one of the proposed amendments to the FRCP that limits the scope of discovery: moving the so-called "proportionality" factors from their current place in…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
FRCP Amendments Will Narrow (Once Again) the Scope of Discovery
The changes proposed to the scope of discovery center around the third "theme" of the 2010 Duke Conference: proportionality. The proposed contraction of the scope of discovery under Rule 26(b)…
Divorce: New York
Journalist Privilege Precludes Divorce Action Discovery From Author
By Neil Cahn
A party in a divorce action who seeks to compel a journalist to turn over information or documents must meet an extraordinary burden. So held New York County Supreme Court…
Litigation & Trial
Lawyers Are Responsible For Their Clients’ Production of Documents
Earlier this week, I wrote about lawyers obstructing discovery by responding to discovery interrogatories themselves, either by letter or by an unverified response, rather than by having their client answer.…
Pennsylvania Law Monitor
PA Supreme Court Approves Rule Banning Discovery of Attorney-Expert Communications
In a previous post, I wrote about the Barrick v. Holy Spirit decision and its impact upon discovery of communications between attorneys and experts. To summarize, the superior court reached…
Chicago IP Litigation
Scheduling Delay Does Not Warrant Canceling the Deposition
Cleversafe, Inc. v. Amplidata, Inc., No. 11 C 4890, Slip Op. (N.D. Ill. Jan. 11, 2014) (Cole, Mag. J.). Judge Cole denied plaintiff Cleversafe’s motion for a protective order and…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Couture on PLRSA Discovery
Wendy Gerwick Couture has posted The PSLRA Discovery Stay Meets Complex Litigation: Five Questions Answered on SSRN with the following abstract:The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act (“PSLRA”) was enacted nearly 20…
Wage & Hour - Developments & Highlights
Quinn Discovery Dispute A Defeat For the Plaintiff
I had recently blogged about the discovery dispute in the FLSA class action case involving Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and how I believed the plaintiffs were overreaching and…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
ABA Pretrial Practice and Discovery Committee Spring Newsletter
The Pretrial Practice and Discovery Committee of the Section of Litigation of the American Bar Association has issued its Spring 2014 newsletter. Spring 2014, Vol. 22 No. 2TABLE OF CONTENTS_________________________________________________________________________________________________________Articles »The…