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Case Study: Lights, Camera, Action… and Discovery Dispute

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A TV host resigned because her employer didn’t respond when she complained about her cohost’s behavior. After her cohost was fired a few months later, she sued. During the pretrial fact-finding stage (discovery), the parties disagreed over what information they were required to exchange. Let’s take a look.

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Sydney Watson was the cohost of a TV show for Blaze Media, located in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. She and her cohost, Elijah Schaffer, clashed. According to Watson, he was “aggressive” and “overly misogynistic” toward her and demonstrated “anti-Jewish” bias and made “antisemitic” comments.

Watson complained to management, which

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