Mealey's (February 12, 2020, 12:55 PM EST) -- BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Finding a variety of failures with discovery requests and motions filed by the brother of a deceased nursing home resident and parties associated with the facility, a New York federal magistrate judge on Jan. 23 declined to bifurcate or “trifurcate” merits and class certification discovery, ordering consolidated discovery and directing that future filings be in accord with federal guidelines (Walter Chow v. SentosaCare LLC, et al., No. 1:19-cv-03541, E.D. N.Y., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 20770)....