Opinion
No. CV06-4021690S
February 20, 2007
RULING ON OBJECTIONS TO INTERROGATORIES AND REQUESTS FOR PRODUCTION
The parties have engaged in a protracted dispute over discovery propounded by the plaintiff. When the issue came before the undersigned on January 16, 2007, I advised counsel that I would rule on those objections which they could not resolve. Instead of promptly advising the court as to which objections required judicial intervention, counsel continued to file additional memoranda and other documents seeking to justify their positions, which ultimately led me to order, on February 7, 2007, that counsel tell me what they had been asked to tell me nearly three weeks earlier.
I. "General Responses and Objections"
The defendants have prefaced their objections with a lengthy and largely superfluous set of statements about their position on discovery.
With respect to any claim of attorney-client or work product privilege, defense counsel shall prepare a privilege log identifying any information or document which they maintain is protected by a privilege. Copies of all such documents and information shall be forwarded to the undersigned in a sealed envelope together with the privilege log. Counsel for plaintiff shall, on or before March 2, 2007, advise the court if they want an in camera review of any documents in the log and a ruling from the court. Any such request shall specifically identify which documents the court should review.
If defendants have produced, on a "without waiving objection" basis, any of the documents in the privilege log, they will make that unequivocally clear.
The defendants need not list in their privilege log any document created after this litigation was instituted.
II. Interrogatories CT Page 3128
1. The objection is overruled in part. Defendants shall identify all persons who participated in answering discovery.
2. The answer to interrogatory 2 may stand.
3. If defendants have no statements as defined in the Practice Book, they should say so. Any statement which is the subject of a privilege claim shall be included in the privilege log.
7. The objection is overruled.
10. The objection is overruled.
11. The objection is overruled.
17. Defendants shall identify employees who participated in sales and/or marketing on these accounts. The objection is otherwise sustained.
18. See ruling on interrogatory 17.
19. The objection is overruled.
20. See ruling on interrogatory 17.
21. The objection is overruled.
22. The objection is overruled.
23. The objection is sustained.
24. The objection is sustained.
29. The objection is sustained.
30. The objection is sustained.
33. Defendants shall provide this information with respect to sales and/or marketing only. The objection is otherwise sustained.
34. The objection is sustained.
38. The objection is overruled.
III. Requests for Production
As ordered above, any document which defendants claim is privileged shall be listed in a privilege log and filed with the court for in camera review if necessary.
1. Defendants seem not to have objected to requests 1 and 2. They are ordered to produce documents not listed in a privilege log when they answer plaintiff's interrogatories.
3. The objection is overruled.
7. The answer may stand.
8. The objection is overruled.
10. The objection is overruled.
11. The objection is sustained.
13. The objection is overruled.
15. The objection is overruled.
19. The objection is sustained.
22. The objection is overruled with respect to documents pertaining to plaintiff's sales and marketing evidence and/or job performance. It is otherwise sustained.
23. See ruling on request 22.
26. See ruling on request 22.
27. The objection is overruled.
28. The objection is overruled.
29-40. See ruling on request 22.
42. The objection is sustained.
43. The objection is sustained.
The defendants are ordered to answer plaintiff's discovery, as ordered, on or before March 15, 2007.