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Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
SCOTUS decision in Mohawk Industries v. Carpenter: the collateral order doctrine, discovery orders, and the attorney-client privilege
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
The Supreme Court today decided Mohawk Industries Inc. v. Carpenter, No. 08-678. (See here and here for our earlier coverage of the case.) Justice Sotomayor begins the opinion: "The question before…
Delaware Corporate & Commercial Litigation Blog
Chancery Court Applies Standards to Motion to Compel Discovery
Kurtz v. Holbrook, No. 5019-VCL (Del. Ch. Dec. 1, 2009), read letter decision here. This relatively short letter decision from the Delaware Court of Chancery addresses two motions to compel…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Change The Discovery Rules
By Ellen Podgor
The letter below was written in April 2009, but it surfaced for me this past week - - It's a letter from Hon. Emmet G. Sullivan to Hon. Richard C.…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Civil Procedure Section Program at the AALS Annual Meeting
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
In case you missed it on the civ pro listserv, Professor Patrick Woolley provided this information about the Civil Procedure Section program at the AALS Annual Meeting:The civil procedure program…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
What sort of lawyer does not love Pennoyer–especially this time, when it’s put in a rhyme?
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Elizabeth Chamblee Burch (Florida State University College of Law) has posted "There's a Pennoyer in My Foyer: Civil Procedure According to Dr. Seuss." Abstract:This is what it purports to be: a…
Reverse & Render
Discovery of Net Worth Continues to Simmer
At least since the Texas Supreme Court's 1994 opinion in Transportation Insurance Company v. Moriel, questions of the right to discovery of a defendant's net worth information, the definition of "net worth", and…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Prof. Connors on Allocating the Costs of Discovery
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Professor Patrick Connors (Albany) has posted Which Party Pays the Costs of Document Disclosure?, 29 Pace L. Rev. 441 (2009) on SSRN. Here's the abstract: The disclosure of electronically stored…
Florida Insurance Blog
Insurer Must Prepare Privilege Log of Materials It Claims are Privileged
By Mark Nation
In Phoenix Insurance Co v. Trans World Forwarding, Inc., ____ So.3d ____ (Fla. 3rd DCA September 23, 2009), the insured filed a first-party breach of contract case against its insurer. As…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Discovery & Academic Freedom
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports here on a tobacco suit in which the defendant R.J. Reynoldss's lawyers are seeking discovery of a Stanford professor's unfinished, unpublished manuscript of a…
Media Law Prof Blog
Tobacco Company Seeks Access To Historian’s Unpublished Manuscript
The Chronicle discusses attempts by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco to obtain access to an unpublished work by Stanford's Robert Proctor. Dr. Proctor is an expert witness in a lawsuit against the…