Southwest Financial Bank & Trust Co. v. George Hyman Construction Co.

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• discussing that mixing of responsive and nonresponsive documents, “[w]hether intended or not, ... result[s] [in] the proverbial ‘needle in a haystack’ ... that Rule 34 ... was intended to prevent.”
• waiving an objection made by the defendants for the first time in their response brief
• pointing to events in the record revealing \the polarity and intractability of the parties' positions\
• noting that parties “are not at liberty under federal discovery rules to dump massive amounts of documents, which . . . have no logical order to them . . . on their adversaries and demand that they try to find what they are looking for.”
• pointing to a series of letters between the parties that \reveal not a meeting of the minds ... but an expression of irreconcilable positions and a clash of wills\
• discussing that testimony of persons familiar with the manner in which documents are filed and stored is sufficient to evaluate whether the producing party has met the evidentiary burden of proving that production of documents as they are kept in storage is proper under Rule 34(b)

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