Fine Shoe Co. v. Buckray Inc.

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• conferral efforts must take place “with the same candor, specificity, and support 17 during informal negotiations as during the briefing of discovery motions”
• “The purpose of this [pre-filing consultation] rule is simple: to lessen the burden on the court and reduce the unnecessary expenditure of resources by litigants, through promotion of informal, extrajudicial resolution of discovery disputes.”
• judicial consideration of a dispute is proper 9 when “one party has acted in bad faith, either by refusing to engage in negotiations altogether or 10 by refusing to provide specific support for its claims ...”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).