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Dec. 15, 2022
Retired judges lose motion to compel discovery, set chief justice deposition
Counsel for the plaintiffs — Daniel S. Mason of Furth Salem Mason & Li LLP in San Francisco and Quentin L. Kopp, a former San Mateo County Superior Court judge and current of counsel for Mason’s firm — accused the defendants of attaching “odious and unacceptable conditions,” to the taking of the chief justice’s deposition.
A group of retired judges claiming that the California Judicial Council and Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye were stalling discovery in their age discrimination lawsuit had their motion to compel denied on Wednesday by a San Francisco judge.
One of the disputes is over when the plaintiffs can schedule a deposition of the retiring chief justice.
The denial of the motion to compel is the latest loss in the di...
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