First: “[T]he Court allows parties to follow the following procedures in settling discovery disputes through informal position letters rather than requiring the parties to file formal motions to ...

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From Judge Thomas O. Farrish (D. Conn.) last Monday in Conservation Law Foundation, Inc. v. Shell Oil Co.: The ...

Of the 7.5 billion people in the world, a staggering 3 billion are using social media. Suffice to say, this trendy method of communication stopped being a fad long ago, but the world of law is really ...

28 U.S.C. § 1782 (Section 1782) allows parties (and even non-parties) to obtain discovery of documents or testimony in the United States in aid of matters before “foreign or international tribunals.” ...

A recent set of cases demonstrates that judges are well aware of the dance between adversaries and have established a set of standards to determine when requests labeled "discovery on discovery" are ...

Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily paused a lower court’s order for discovery in a lawsuit against the Department of Government Efficiency days before it would have needed to produce documents.

A new court order restricts how evidence can be handled in the federal corruption case against Jody Owens, Chokwe Antar Lumumba and Aaron Banks.

In examining the school's practices and disciplinary culture as part of a lawsuit filed by a former student, transparency is ...