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Magistrate orders expense depositions to go forward, orders defendant's expert to be deposed in NY, in UMG v. Lindor

By Ty Rogers and Ray Beckerman

In UMG v. Lindor, the Magistrate Judge has resolved some of the minor discovery issues that were recently raised in a series of letters, as follows:

-on the issue of expenses-per-download, defendant's lawyer must work with the digital copies of SONY BMG's royalty statements;
-also on the issue of expenses-per-download, plaintiffs are to be deposed by telephone by May 31st;
-the defendant's expert, Prof. Johan Pouwelse, will be deposed in the US at a mutually convenient time between June 15th and July 31st;
-the expert discovery deadline is extended to July 31st for all purposes; and
-the fact discovery deadline is extended sine die for the MediaSentry deposition.

May 2, 2008, Order resolving discovery issues*

* Document published online at Internet Law & Regulation

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Full post as published by Recording Industry vs The People on May 04, 2008 (boomark / email).