Am I naive, or is the sad level of inappropriate gamesmanship in the civil discovery process obvious to others as well? Consider the following forms of pathology, all observed in the past month.
Objecting to everything. This is a classic. We keep copies of the discovery others serve on our clients. We then try to use the very terms our adversaries have used in crafting our own discovery. It is frequently the case that adversaries then object to each and every question. Their terms are, they claim, now vague, unclear or burdensome.
