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Can Simple Mechanism Design Results Be Used To Implement The Proportionality Standard In Discovery?, Jonah B. Gelbach Sep 2015

Can Simple Mechanism Design Results Be Used To Implement The Proportionality Standard In Discovery?, Jonah B. Gelbach

All Faculty Scholarship

I point out that the Coase theorem suggests there should not be wasteful discovery, in the sense that the value to the requester is less than the cost to the responder. I use a toy model to show that a sufficiently informed court could design a mechanism under which the Coasean prediction is borne out. I then suggest that the actual information available to courts is too little to effect this mechanism, and I consider alternatives. In discussing mechanisms intended to avoid wasteful discovery where courts have limited information, I emphasize the role of normative considerations.


Global Aerospace Inc., Order On Defendants' Fourth Motion For Order Compelling Discovery Against Plaintiff Global Aerospace Inc., Elizabeth E. Long Jun 2015

Global Aerospace Inc., Order On Defendants' Fourth Motion For Order Compelling Discovery Against Plaintiff Global Aerospace Inc., Elizabeth E. Long

Georgia Business Court Opinions

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"Just A Bit Outside!": Proportionality In Federal Discovery And The Institutional Capacity Of The Federal Courts, Bernadette Bollas Genetin Jun 2015

"Just A Bit Outside!": Proportionality In Federal Discovery And The Institutional Capacity Of The Federal Courts, Bernadette Bollas Genetin

Akron Law Faculty Publications

This Article focuses on pending amendments to Rule 26(b)(1), the scope-of-discovery provision in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Proposed Rule 26(b)(1) would authorize parties to obtain discovery of “any non-privileged matter that is relevant to any party’s claim or defense” if that information is also “proportional to the needs of the case,” based on enumerated proportionality factors – “the importance of the issues at state in the action, the amount in controversy, the parties’ relative access to relevant information, the parties’ resources, the importance of the discovery in resolving the issues, and whether the burden or expense of the …


Global Aerospace Inc., Omnibus Order On Discovery Motions, Elizabeth E. Long Feb 2015

Global Aerospace Inc., Omnibus Order On Discovery Motions, Elizabeth E. Long

Georgia Business Court Opinions

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Global Aerospace Inc., Order On Motions For Sanctions, Elizabeth E. Long Feb 2015

Global Aerospace Inc., Order On Motions For Sanctions, Elizabeth E. Long

Georgia Business Court Opinions

No abstract provided.


Recent Trends In Discovery In Arbitration And In The Federal Rules Of Civil Procedure, Paul Radvany Jan 2015

Recent Trends In Discovery In Arbitration And In The Federal Rules Of Civil Procedure, Paul Radvany

Faculty Scholarship

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Discoverymania: Plausibility Pleading As Misprescription, Fabio Arcila Jr. Jan 2015

Discoverymania: Plausibility Pleading As Misprescription, Fabio Arcila Jr.

Scholarly Works

In replacing notice pleading with plausibility pleading, the Supreme Court chose to use a pleading solution to address a perceived discovery problem. This dissonance calls into question both the wisdom and legitimacy of the Court’s choice because plausibility pleading is too blunt an instrument to serve the Court’s goals: it is destabilizing because it ignores the interrelationship between discovery and other Federal Rules of Civil Procedure; it is unfairly overinclusive because it impacts all plaintiffs in all federal cases rather than only those in the minority of cases in which discovery is likely to be problematic; and it is unfairly …