National Life Insurance Company v. Hartford Accident And Indemnity Company

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the Federal Rules do not allow for advance submission of deposition questions and that there is “no policy justification for allowing the witness the option of reviewing written questions prior to the deposition”
• “[T]here are strong reasons why a party will select to proceed by oral deposition rather than alternate means, most significantly the spontaneity of the responses.”
• ‘a witness in civil proceeding may not invoke a blanket [F]ifth [A]Jmendment privilege [against self-incrimination] prior to the propounding of questions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).