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Local Rule Prohibiting Definitions in Interrogatories Without Leave of Court

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The court cited a local rule that prohibits use of definitions in interrogatories without leave of court. In pertinent part, Herman objected to the definitions in Payne’s interrogatories. b) (“A party may not separately define words used in an interrogatory without the court’s leave.”). applies only to interrogatories.

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Privilege Log Entry Was Relevant to Inquiry Notice Where Time-Bar Was at Issue

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In Cáceres, privilege log entries appeared to show that plaintiffs were on notice of their claim months earlier than they asserted in interrogatory answers. The court also overruled an objection to the deposition of an SGR attorney. They sued for, inter alia , professional negligence in connection with tax advice.

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Initial Disclosures Cannot Await Expert Opinions

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Vasquez, Blake Lively’s Deposition Pushed Back by 2 Weeks After Judge’s Latest Ruling in Justin Baldoni Case (Jul. Lively objected and wrote: “Subject to and without waiving the foregoing objections, and only after the entry of a mutually agreed upon ESI protocol, Ms. 14, 2025); I. 14, 2025); E. 19, 2025); B. 354, 359 (D.

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Decision on How to Best Search for ESI – Court Orders ESI Protocol in “Epic of Dysfunctional Discovery,” With Unique Clawback Provision

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22, 2023); Court Uses an Informal Discovery Procedure to Hold That Untimely Objections Were Waived, and Answers to Interrogatories Defectively Referred to Deposition (Nov. Procedures to Avoid, and Promptly Resolve, Discovery Disputes in the District of Maryland (Dec. 15, 2025). [2] 15, 2025). [2]

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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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Amendments to CR 26 and 30 Will Change Discovery and Deposition Practice

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1 The amendments to CR 26 affect objections, supplementation, and disclosure of experts. 1, 2024, codify procedure for depositions by remote means. In response to the objection this might increase costs and introduce ambiguity, the Work Group determined most parties already ask for supplementation, so there is no net increase in work.

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

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The identification of non-custodial sources of data is a foundational issue, and you don’t get to make an objection to the other side’s disclosure and then hold on to that objection forever and ever, and years later ask to start the whole process over from scratch. We’re not starting this over from the beginning. emphasis added].