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DOS and DON’TS of a 30(b)(6) Witness Deposition, Part Five

eDiscovery Daily

Depositions of government agencies are explicitly permitted under Rule 30(b)(6), but if the agency happens to be serving as trial counsel in an enforcement action and also conducted or supervised the underlying investigation, many courts refuse to permit the deposition. These include: Securities and Exchange Commission v. McCabe, No.

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The Burden of Privacy In Discovery

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4 The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure have begun — since their inception — with a guiding command for courts to seek “to secure the just, speedy, and inexpensive determination of every action and proceeding.”5 19 No longer are the proportionality considerations described as separate “limitations” on an inquiry governed solely by relevance.20

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