Opinion
01 Civ. 8885 (CM) (RLE).
July 11, 2007
OPINION
By letter dated July 3, 2007, plaintiff wrote this Court requesting judicial intervention in three discovery disputes that had arisen between the parties. The three issues plaintiff raised were: 1) defendants' failure to provide expert interrogatory responses; 2) defendants' failure to provide corrected computer data information; and 3) defendants' refusal to provide a copy of the deposition transcript of a non-testifying defense expert in a previous lawsuit. Letter from Colleen Meenan, July 3, 2007, at 1, 3. On July 9, the Court held a telephone conference with the parties. The parties informed the Court that they believed they had resolved the second issue, failure to provide corrected computer data, and the Court entertained arguments by the parties on the two remaining issues. After consideration of the parties' respective arguments, as well as the submissions included in plaintiff's letter, the Court made verbal rulings. The Court denied plaintiff's request to the interrogatory responses as "failures to answer," finding the generality of the answers to reflect the broadness of the questions. This request was untimely, and, furthermore, plaintiff failed to demonstrate that the transcript was an appropriate discovery request in this case.