Law 360

MARCH 17, 2023

Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday asked a California federal court to sanction Volkswagen for refusing to let the agency depose a key employee in litigation over the automaker's so-called defeat devices, which allowed thousands of "Clean Diesel" vehicles to cheat emissions tests.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The Georgia Supreme Court will review whether the CEO of General Motors can be deposed in a Georgia widower's product liability suit, in a case that could change how top corporate brass are treated in state court.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

General Motors LLC has urged the Georgia Supreme Court to adopt what it calls a widely accepted discovery framework that would shield its CEO from being deposed in a widower's product liability case.

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Law 360

JUNE 16, 2021

A Georgia appeals court recently allowed a plaintiff to depose General Motors' CEO, in a blow to the apex doctrine's protections for high-ranking executives, but measures before and during discovery can reduce corporate leaders' exposure in such cases, say attorneys at DLA Piper.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

A Georgia widower has opposed a renewed motion by General Motors LLC to shield its CEO, Mary Barra, from being deposed in his product liability and wrongful death suit, after the Georgia Supreme Court denied GM's attempt to stop her deposition.

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Attorney at Work

MAY 28, 2022

From time to time, opposing counsel may act in an uncivil or unprofessional manner during a telephone call, where there is no official record as there might be in a deposition or a written communication. This creates a record that you can later use as a submission to the court, if necessary. During a Deposition.

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Day on Torts

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Where an HCLA plaintiff’s expert testified at his deposition that he was not very familiar with Kingsport and that he had only reviewed information about Kingsport the night before the deposition, rather than before forming his medical opinions, the trial court did not err by excluding the expert based on the locality rule.

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Day on Torts

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Defendant deposed Dr. Gunnerson as an adverse expert witness, then filed a motion for summary judgment, asserting that there was “no causal connection between any alleged negligence by [defendant] and any injury, including death, to [the patient].” The Court of Appeals, however, disagreed with this interpretation.

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The Cloud Court Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Over the years I’ve attended a lot of depositions. When the deposition is over, the people that were in the room often have a sort of inexplicable, Venn-type diagram of disparate recollections about what actually happened. But now, as my team has continued to study depositions, I've come to suspect that something else is at play here.

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The Estrin Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

I knew he was lying, so I scheduled the deposition of the direct employer to be held at dinner time — at his personal residence. It’s amazing the results you get when you invite yourself over to someone’s house for dinner and a deposition! In the age of Covid-19, we are having a lot of depositions via Zoom. The sky didn’t fall.

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The Fashion Law

JULY 19, 2021

District Court for the Central District of California states that the parties “agreed to a settlement in principle and will finalize the outstanding matters before the pretrial conference scheduled for July 16, 2021, with the district judge.” In response to Fashion Nova’s request that the court compel Ms. Versace to testify.

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The Cloud Court Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

I am obsessed with depositions and, in particular, their importance to the outcome of cases. That obsession extends to deposition data as well as to the psychology of the players involved: the attorneys taking and defending depositions; the witnesses being deposed; as well as the court reporters.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 31, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday morning rejected a request from three Texas lawmakers to put off their depositions in lawsuits seeking to block redistricting legislation in that state. There were no dissents noted from the brief order , which clears the way for the depositions to go forward next month.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 13, 2023

The illegal destruction of disciplinary records can make it harder to hold deputies accountable in a court of law, or track problem officers moving from department to department, said Sam Walker, emeritus professor of criminal justice at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Deposition of Nick Vega, Sept.

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Protective Order Stops Columbia Professor From Being Part Of Depositions: He did way more than just cold calling. Fox News Is In Court. The post Can’t Depose This Columbia Law Professor Anymore — See Also appeared first on Above the Law. Will AI Make VIPs?: This firm leader think so.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 21, 2023

A judge for the New York federal appeals court temporarily shot down House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan’s plan to depose former Manhattan special prosecutor Mark Pomerantz on Thursday, Victoria Bekiempis reports for Rolling Stone.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Monday afternoon denied a request from the leaders of the Arizona legislature to put on hold an order that would require them to be deposed about the legislature’s enactment of voting laws that make it more difficult to register to vote. Toma and Petersen came to the Supreme Court on Nov.

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The Cloud Court Blog

AUGUST 5, 2022

Your corporate witness is about to be deposed by a seasoned litigator on topics related to damages. Moreover, you’ve likely had access to it (in the unmined form of depositions) for years. Now, here’s the question: before you make your decision, do you want to open that envelope and find out which is which? Second hypothetical.

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