Susie J. Salter, as of the Estate of Salter, Rufus, Deceased v. The Upjohn Company, a Corporation

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• recognizing the liberal discovery standard and a party’s right to use depositions as a discovery tool
• requiring plaintiffs to show executive had personal knowledge and lower level employees lacked knowledge prior to permitting executive’s deposition
• affirming the protective order, in part, because the company’s president “was extremely busy and did not have any direct knowledge of the facts”
• affirming disallowance of president’s deposition until plaintiff first deposed, and established the inadequacy of depositions of, defendant’s 30(b)(6) corporate representative and lower-ranking company officials
• affirming trial court order barring deposition of defendant CEO at least until plaintiff deposed defendant employees with more “direct knowledge of the relevant facts”
• affirming district court’s requirement that plaintiff first “depose the other employees that [the company] indicated had more knowledge of the facts before deposing [the company president]”

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