A lot of times the person being sued would be the one trying to hold out information though. People seemed to think that if they just didn't provide the information or the document or whatever the case would just go away. But not so! This would usually be when a motion to compel woul...
Motions to compel are most common during thediscovery phaseof a lawsuit. Discovery is the process by which the parties request information from each other to build their cases. They demand the production of documents and send out written questions, called interrogatories, for the other party to ...