Government Must Complete Discovery In Prisoners' Eavesdropping Suits

Mealey's (August 12, 2020, 10:25 AM EDT) -- KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A Kansas federal judge on July 27 declined to grant the government's request for a protective order to excuse it from completing purportedly burdensome discovery related to two prisoners' claims of attorney-client privacy violations due to eavesdropping, stating that "[t]he government hasn't persuaded the court of this 'impossibility'" of completing searches of electronically stored information (ESI) (In re:  CCA Recordings 2255 Litigation, No. 2:19-cv-02491, D. Kan., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 132254)....