{"id":10693,"date":"2025-02-18T10:49:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T15:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askabouttplf.com\/?p=10693"},"modified":"2025-04-20T22:39:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T02:39:02","slug":"tplf-tuesday-week-5-discovery-and-the-resources-of-the-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askabouttplf.com\/?p=10693","title":{"rendered":"TPLF Tuesday, Week 5: Discovery and \u201cthe resources of the parties\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The \u201cresources of the parties\u201d are important to determining whether discovery is \u201cproportional to the needs of the case\u201d under FRCP 26(b)(1)\u2019s definition of the scope of discovery. But courts and parties cannot understand \u201cthe resources of the parties\u201d without knowing that a non-party is funding the litigation. Similarly, when courts consider imposing sanctions under FRCP 37 or allocating costs pursuant to FRCP 26(c)(1)(B), they should know when a non-party is providing substantial resources to a party (and likely influencing litigation decisions).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only way for courts and parties to know when a party\u2019s resources include funds from a non-party investor is for courts to order disclosure of TPLF contracts\u2014or for the FRCP to require it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cresources of the parties\u201d are important to determining whether discovery is \u201cproportional to the needs of the case\u201d under FRCP 26(b)(1)\u2019s definition of the scope of discovery. But courts and parties cannot understand \u201cthe resources of the parties\u201d without knowing that a non-party is funding the litigation. Similarly, when courts consider imposing sanctions under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25,95],"tags":[96],"source":[],"class_list":["post-10693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-tplf-tuesday","tag-tplf-tuesday"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askabouttplf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/askabouttplf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/askabouttplf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askabouttplf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askabouttplf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askabouttplf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askabouttplf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askabouttplf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askabouttplf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10693"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askabouttplf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fsource&post=10693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}