The Court allows DOJ and the pack of interest groups to harass North Carolina with burdensome discovery requests. Federal courts should not allow these fishing expeditions in the desperate search for some “smoking gun” that is needed to overcome the fact that the plaintiffs have no evidence to support their claims.
Attorneys submitted the plan in early March. The agreement, according to court documents, dictated that the state elections board would provide plaintiffs’ attorneys with all electronic records “pursuant to search terms agreed upon by the parties” for review.Only a portion of those documents, the ones that the plaintiffs and defendants deem to fit the discovery requests, will end up in the litigation. The plan prohibits attorneys from sharing the contents with anyone until an agreement is made. Defense attorneys have five business days for the first 3,000 documents, plus a day for each additional 1,000 documents, to identify any requested documents they consider privileged or feel do not meet the terms of the discovery request.
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