The federal magistrate judge ordered parties to present disputes in just two joint statements
A federal magistrate judge in the US thinks that litigation tactics used by parties before her court have gone too far.
“The court has indulged the parties’ abusive litigation tactics for long enough,” US Magistrate Judge Nancy Koppe said in a 19 July order, according to the American Bar Association Journal.
The Nevada judge denied the pending discovery motions of the parties and required them to present their disputes using just two joint statements.
The parties had filed eight briefs of a single motion, Koppe said. For another motion to quash subpoenas, the parties went through another “briefing odyssey,” she said.
Koppe also said that lawyers of both parties “are expected to be professional and courteous to one another.” She said that the court is “not impressed by overheated rhetoric and personal attacks.”
The case is between V5 Technologies and Switch Ltd. V5, which does business as Cobalt Data Centers, allege Switch maintains control over the Las Vegas data centre market using unfair tactics.
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