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Discovery
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Drug & Device Law
Docs For The Goose, Docs For The Gander – Round II
By Bexis
Over two years ago (have we really been at this so long we can say that?) we wrote a post “Docs for the Goose, Docs for the Gander,” in which…
Drug & Device Law
Caveat Emptor
By Bexis
Caveat Emptor.... That’s the take-away that we glean from the Transobturator Sling Products MDL, where the court recently granted in part and denied in part a motion to quash a…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Dodson on New Pleadings & Discovery
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Professor Scott Dodson (William & Mary School of Law) has posted "New Pleadings, New Discovery" on SSRN.The abstract states:Pleading in federal court has a new narrative. The old narrative was…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
New rules of Civil Procedure for Ontario courts
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
While those of us in the U.S. have been wringing our hands over the procedural reforms that both the Rules drafters and the Supreme Court have handed us over the…
British Columbia Insurance Blog
An out of province insurer may not be entitled to conduct money to compensate a represenative for attending at an Examination for Discovery.
The insured Plaintiff brought a motion that he not be required to pay attendance money in order to conduct an oral examination for discovery of a knowledgeable person produced by…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Summary of AALS Panels of Interest
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
For those of you headed to New Orleans for AALS, there are several panels of interest that we have posted about over the past few weeks. The panels all include…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Another AALS Panel of Interest: “Revisiting Discovery” (January 8)
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Readers attending the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) annual meeting next week in New Orleans may be interested in the AALS Civil Procedure Section's program, Revisiting Discovery, which is co-sponsored…
Class Action Countermeasures
Making the 30(b)(6) Deposition Work for You
By The Editors
One reason that class actions are notable is that the discovery is particularly one-sided. The plaintiff likely has few documents, and little to say in deposition about her claims. So…
Reverse & Render
“Overly broad is the way that leadeth to mandamus.”
By Byron Henry
At least that's how the Texas Supreme Court's version of Matthew 7:13 reads. In a per curiam opinion, the Court recently demonstrated its vigilance in policing overly-broad discovery orders. In this product…
E-Discovery
Social Networking Becoming the 800 Pound Gorilla for Litigators
Are you a litigation attorney? Are you on Facebook and/or Myspace? Do you even know what they are? You better. Use of social networking web sites such as Facebook and…