Pfeiffer v. Essex Wire Corp.

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• permitting deposition of the dean and chairman of the New York University School of Medicine Department of Medicine
• denying motion to quash deposition and stating “[n]or ... does it matter that the proposed witness is a busy person or professes lack of knowledge of the matters at issue, as the party seeking the discovery is entitled to test the asserted lack of knowledge.”
• “It is exceedingly difficult to demonstrate an appropriate basis for an order barring the taking of a deposition.”
• “Nor, in ordinary circumstances, does it matter that the proposed witness is a busy person or professes lack of knowledge of the matters at issue, as the party seeking discovery is entitled to test the asserted lack of knowledge”
• “[I]n ordinary circumstances, [it] does [not] matter that the proposed witness is a busy person or professes lack of knowledge of the matters at issue, as the party seeking the discovery is entitled to test the asserted lack of knowledge.”
• “Protective orders prohibiting depositions are rarely granted.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).