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Standing Pretrial Order and Notice
On May 29, 2001, the Court issued its Standing Pretrial
Order and Notice in each case, setting the cases for trial at the
trial session of the Court commencing on December 3, 2001, in
Houston, Texas.
Petitioners’ Discovery Requests
On September 20 and 25, 2001, Ms. Martin and Dr. Trowbridge,
respectively, served on respondent a request for admissions.
Each request is over 140 pages in length (without attachments)
and requests over 600 admissions.
On September 27, 2001, each petitioner served on respondent
interrogatories and a request for production of documents. Each
set of interrogatories is over 125 pages in length and contains
over 500 interrogatories.
On October 4, 2001, respondent filed motions for protective
orders with respect to the requests for admissions,
interrogatories, and requests for production of documents served
by petitioners. Respondent argued that such requests were not
timely, addressed improper issues, and were intended to burden
respondent unduly, waste his resources, and divert him from trial
preparation. We asked petitioners to respond and, after
considering their responses, granted respondent relief
“substantially for the reasons stated in respondent’s motions.”
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