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Delaying Discovery

By K.C. Johnson

The legal skirmishing in the civil suits by both the falsely accused and the unindicted players has featured two unusual items of contention. The first was Duke?s motion to close down the Duke Lawsuit website?even as the University hosted a website containing (among other items) President Brodhead?s April 5, 2006 letter to the community. (That document severely denigrated the personal character of the very people now suing the University.) The judge correctly decided that both websites were proper under legal ethics guidelines. The second unusual item has been a refusal first by Duke (in the suits by the unindicted players) and then by Durham (in all the cases) to formally confer with the plaintiffs? attorneys about discovery matters...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on August 05, 2008 (boomark / email).