In re Coordinated Pretrial Proceedings in Petroleum Products Antitrust Litigation

*230 ORDER COMPELLING PRODUCTION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS

Supplementing the magistrate judge’s Minute Orders of April 13, 1992, and May 14, 1992, and after review of all the papers filed relating to plaintiff State of Washington’s motion for protective order filed February 10, 1992, as outlined and briefed in the parties “Amended Joint Stipulation Regarding Unresolved Discovery Disputes,” filed April 7, 1992 (hereinafter “joint stipulation”), together with “Plaintiffs. Supplemental Response, etc.,” filed April 16,1992, and “Defendants’ Statement In Response, etc.” filed May 29,1992, the court finds and orders as follows:

1. Background.

On December 31, 1991, defendants submitted to plaintiffs requests for production of documents under Rule 34, F.R.Civ.P. Only requests numbers 1, 9, & 17 are pertinent here. Each of the requests pertains to documents related to activities of plaintiffs’ experts.

Request No. 1 asked for:

Request No. 9 asked for:

On January 17, 1992, plaintiffs responded to request no. 9 (and to Request No. 1 in almost identical language), after objecting on grounds not relevant here:

Request for Production No. 17 asked for:

Plaintiffs responded, after objections…