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When Can a Party Refer to Produced Records as an Answer to an Interrogatory?

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Plaintiff contended that, in response to plaintiffs interrogatories, Defendants improperly refer to hundreds of pages of documents, which is non-responsive, evasive, and in violation of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 33(d). First, it must show that a review of the documents will actually reveal answers to the interrogatories.

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A Wake Up Call Revisited: Read the Rules & Don’t Argue “Not Reasonably Calculated” in Federal Courts

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wrote: It is time, once again, to issue a discovery wake-up call to the Bar in this District: the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were amended effective December 1, 2015, and one change that affects the daily work of every litigator is to Rule 34. Forrest, 2017 WL 773694, at *1 (S.D.N.Y. accord Avila v. Target Corp., 26(d)(3)(A).

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Sometimes Discovery Disputes Do Not Bring Out the Best in Us – Part II

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Nor is it a positive development when that court wrote: “Things have never exactly moved along at a break-neck pace in this litigation. The main topic here is ‘contention interrogatories’…. The court explained that: “A large portion of the parties’ dispute has to do with what a contention interrogatory can ask for.

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Li. v. Merck Addresses: Trigger; Spoliation Discovery; and, Document Unitization

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While Sedona correctly states that the test is whether a reasonable party in the same factual circumstances would have reasonably foreseen litigation, I have some questions about the Li Courts conclusion. Li to answer interrogatories asking if she or anyone else had deleted or destroyed any information requested in defendants discovery.

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Trellis Launches Trellis AI to Streamline Trial Court Litigation

Trellis AI leverages the largest repository of state trial court data to help litigators evaluate cases, automate brief drafting, suggest winning strategies, and more. Key Witnesses — Identify the people involved in the case and their roles to inform decisions about document requests, interrogatories, and depositions.

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

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In the latest iteration of In Re StubHub Refund Litigation , 2024 WL 3817068 (N.D. This is adversarial litigation, and there need to be clearly understood responsibilities. Litigation is designed to find the truth, but it is designed to find it in a particular way: adversarial testing. But that’s not true.” emphasis added].

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Another Cinderella Situation –Motion Denied as Untimely?

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The Fiskars court explained that: The bottom line is this: Even if the court were inclined to compel production of source code and related documents, that information would be unusable in this litigation absent a dramatic upheaval of the schedule…. 14, 2024); Spoliation Motions Denied as Untimely – Another Wake-Up Call (Sep.

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