WARNING: Follow Rules Governing Objections to Discovery Requests or Waive ThemRussell T Gorkin
Litigators know the familiar song and dance of responding to discovery requests—the response starts off with a list of general objections ranging from privilege to vagueness concerns and continues with a list of specific objections incorporating by reference the general objections already l...
jurisdictions with weak oversight and dramatically raising the cost of insurance on its universal life insurance policies, a federal magistrate judge in the District of Maryland has found that plaintiffs’ discovery requests went too far, while plaintiffs’ responses to discovery were “miserably ...
. It was also enacted “to bring an end to the equally abusive practice of objecting to discovery requests reflexively—but not reflectively—and without a factual basis.”Id. As such, broad document requests and boilerplate objections must be replaced with specific, proportional re...