a process known as pretrial discovery. The district attorney's office argued that it was not obligated to produce the Justice Department documents and made a "good faith" effort to turn over more material to Trump's team than was
Rule 26 is broadly focused on the discovery process, where parties to a lawsuit exchange information relevant to the case. The subsection (f) of this rule is a specific provision regarding the pretrial conference, often referred to as the "meet and confer" requirement....
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Judge Goodwin issued a further order (PDF) on December 10, outlining the schedule for pretrial proceedings in a “mini wave” of 60 cases from this third group, calling for the completion of all fact discovery by February 10, 2015 and expert discovery by May 5, 2015. Judge Goodwin will ...