Magistrate Denies Motion To Depose Former Lumberyard Owner About Contamination

Mealey's (March 21, 2018, 12:30 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A federal magistrate judge in California on March 19 denied an amended petition filed the current owners of a lumberyard seeking permission to take the deposition of a former owner who claims to have knowledge about other parties who may have contributed to contamination at the Yosemite Slough site in San Francisco, finding that the record does not show that all expected adverse parties were served with the petition (In the Matter of a Petition by Ricci & Kruse Lumber Company, No. 18-mc-80021, N.D. Calif., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 44781)....