Associates Discount Corp. v. Greisinger

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• noting that courts have use their inherent power to impose 16 deposition costs on attorneys “whose disruptions of a deposition rendered it futile and ineffective, 17 and were obnoxious to the orderly, reasonable, and proper conduct of an examination”
• imposing sanctions for among other things “instructions not to answer, instructions how to answer, colloquies, interruptions, and ad hominem attacks” that disrupted the deposition.
• imposing sanctions under Rule 30(d)(2) on counsel whose “interruptions were pervasive, and clearly intended to cause problems for [opposing counsel] in his examination”
• sanctioning an attorney who “appear[ed] on more than 85 percent of the pages of the deposition transcript (216/241) with statements other than an objection as to form or a request to the court reporter to read back a question

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