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Scheduling Orders Are Mandatory; Vital to Caseload Management; and, Enforced Even Where Parties Got Themselves Into a “Pickle” by Dilatory Efforts to Cooperate

E-Discovery LLC

The defendant did not answer the plaintiff’s interrogatories until mid-July…, and, after repeatedly failing to produce documents on promised dates, finally produced some documents in response to the plaintiff’s April requests in mid-August…. 30 at ¶ 7(a) (asking for a deadline several weeks from now to submit an ESI proposal). Id.at *4.

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