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StubHub: “The Court is not going to do that.”

E-Discovery LLC

The court rejected plaintiffs’ request for a query to “ to serve as the jumping off point for a collaborative, potentially iterative conversation with persons with technical knowledge of StubHub’s data, aimed at identifying those tables containing relevant information needed to adequately answer Plaintiffs’ Interrogatories.” emphasis added].

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Discovery From Former Attorney About Disputed Quid Pro Quo Offer to Opponent

E-Discovery LLC

The court: set out the governing standard for discovery from an attorney and, denied a request to depose the attorney; but, authorized a limited interrogatory to him. The defendants, a Town and others , denied knowledge of the alleged offer. The plaintiffs wanted to develop certain property that they owned. emphasis added].

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E-Discovery 101 – – A Refresher on the Scope of Discovery + Boilerplate Objections Sustained

E-Discovery LLC

“For example, in light of production of loan documents in response to Interrogatory No. Similarly, identification of details of transactions in response to Interrogatory No. 11 is unduly burdensome where the account statements have been produced.”

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When is Failure to Provide a Timely Privilege Log Excusable?

E-Discovery LLC

THE MELTON FACTORS In Melton , 2024 WL 3015749, at *5, the court recognized the general rule: “[A]s a general rule, when a party fails to object timely to interrogatories, production requests, or other discovery efforts, objections thereto are waived…. The court held that one interrogatory failed to request production of the bills.

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Another Cinderella Situation –Motion Denied as Untimely?

E-Discovery LLC

8, 2023); Court Uses an Informal Discovery Procedure to Hold That Untimely Objections Were Waived, and Answers to Interrogatories Defectively Referred to Deposition (Nov. Failure to Object to Untimely Interrogatories Coupled With a Discovery Violation Leads to Reversal (Jan. 1, 2023)( untimely discovery objection was waived); cf.

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Requests for “Any and All” Documents Are Obsolete – Update

E-Discovery LLC

Judge Grimm, Chuck, and Paul suggested in “Maryland Discovery Problems”: “Limitation of the inquiry to ‘material’ and ‘principal’ facts, as opposed to ‘all’ facts makes the interrogatory acceptable in form.” In Maker’s Mark Distiller, Inc. Spalding Grp., 2021 WL 2018880 at *8 (W.D.

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TikTok’s ‘Grossly Insufficient’ Discovery Responses Lead to Motion to Compel in Cellspin Soft Patent Case

IP Watchdog

On June 6, patent owner Cellspin Soft filed a motion to compel in the Eastern District of Texas seeking a court order requiring Chinese social media company TikTok to provide additional responses to interrogatories regarding proper venue in the case.