Allis-Chalmers Co. v. Reilley

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a party is not free to unilaterally withhold production without court authorization by first satisfying the burden of establishing the need for a protective order
• refusing to delay production of surveillance footage because the mere “‘whiff’ of possible improprieties on the part of Plaintiff are insufficient to establish good cause”
• denying protective order where the moving party provided “no independent factual basis . . . other than the spectre that Plaintiff ‘may tailor her testimony’”
• “Conclusory assertions and the ‘whiff’ of possible improprieties on the part of Plaintiff are insufficient to establish good cause.”
• “[T]he touchstone for whether to issue a protective order under Rule 26(c) lies, in first instance, on a party's ability to establish good cause”
• “Conclusory assertions and the ‘whiff’ of possible improprieties on the part of Plaintiff are insufficient to establish good cause.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).