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informal and formal discovery. The motion to show cause also
referred to petitioners’ attempt to secure by formal discovery
the “oaths of office” of respondent’s counsel and of the Chief
Judge and of the judicial officers to whom these cases had been
assigned for hearing on respondent’s motion to dismiss and for
the trial scheduled for January 28, 2002. On December 17, 2001,
respondent’s Motion to Compel Responses to Respondent’s
Interrogatories and Motion to Compel Production of Documents were
filed. On December 17, 2001, an Order to Show Cause was issued.
On December 18, 2001, respondent’s discovery motions were
granted.
On December 31, 2001, Respondent’s Status Report was filed.
Respondent’s status report attached a copy of a request for a
90-day continuance served by petitioners but not as of then
received by the Court. Respondent objected to continuance,
recounting the history of the cases and pointing out that
petitioners’ grounds for continuance were not well taken.
Respondent also referred to petitioners’ continuing failure to
respond to the outstanding discovery.
On January 9, 2002, the Court instituted a conference
telephone call among the parties and the Court to advise
petitioners that their request for a continuance would not be
granted. The parties also discussed the outstanding discovery
Orders and response to the Order to Show Cause. The Court
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