Starr Indemnity & Liability Ins. Co. v. Ross Island Sand & Gravel Co.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 STARR INDEMNITY & LIABILITY No. 2:21-cv-0791 KJM DB
INSURANCE COMPANY,
12 Plaintiff, ORDER v. ROSS ISLAND SAND & GRAVEL CO., Defendant. 17 This matter came before the undersigned on May 27, 2022, for hearing of defendant’s motion to compel pursuant to Local Rule 302(c)(1). (ECF No. 30.) Attorney Michael Cummins appeared via Zoom on behalf of plaintiff. Attorney Michael Brown appeared via Zoom on behalf of defendant. (ECF No. 37.) At the May 27, 2022 hearing the undersigned expressed concern about the burden imposed on plaintiff by defendant’s broadly worded discovery requests. See generally Moses v. Halstead, 236 F.R.D. 667, 672 (D. Kan. 2006) (“a request or interrogatory is overly broad or unduly burdensome on its face if it (1) uses an omnibus term such as ‘relating to’ or ‘concerning,’ and (2) applies to a general category or group of documents or a broad range of information.”). In this regard, plaintiff submitted evidence in…