Magistrate Criticizes Discovery Responses In Copyright Case, Scolds Entire District

Mealey's (March 3, 2017, 1:37 PM EST) -- NEW YORK — In a Feb. 28 ruling, a New York federal magistrate judge not only found a copyright and trademark defendant’s discovery responses to be noncompliant with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 34, he also took the opportunity to criticize attorneys throughout the district for continually failing to comply with December 2015 amendments to the rule (James H. Fischer v. Stephen T. Forrest Jr., et al., No. 1:14-cv-01304 and 1:14-cv-01307, S.D. N.Y., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 28102)....