Wang v. Colgan Air, Inc. et al

Filing 296

DECISION AND ORDER -- This relates to 09-CV-769S DENYING Plaintiff's 1195 Motion to Prevent Defendants From Restricting Plaintiff's Experts From Interviewing Plaintiff and Her Son Before Those Experts Are Deposed. Signed by William M. Skretny, Chief Judge on 12/13/2013. (MEAL) Associated Cases: 1:09-md-02085-WMS, 1:09-cv-00769-WMS

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
WESTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK

IN RE: AIR CRASH NEAR CLARENCE CENTER,
NEW YORK, ON FEBRUARY 12, 2009,

DECISION AND ORDER
09-md-2085
This document relates to:
09-CV-769S

Plaintiff has moved for leave to allow her expert witnesses — Lynda Geller, Ph.D
and Camille Wortman, Ph.D. — to re-interview herself and her son, Kevin Guo, before
Defendants take their (the experts’) depositions. Having fully considered the parties’
arguments, balanced the competing equities, and weighed the interests of finality in
discovery, this Court finds insufficient cause to grant the relief Plaintiff seeks.

Pursuant to the parties’ agreement, Plaintiff’s experts may review all discovery
completed after the submission date of their reports before they are deposed. The parties
may also schedule Plaintiff’s experts’ depositions for the week of December 16, 2013, at
their mutual convenience. Plaintiff’s experts may not, however, re-interview Plaintiff or
Kevin Guo.

IT HEREBY IS ORDERED, that Plaintiff’s Motion to Prevent Defendants From
Restricting Plaintiff’s Experts From Interviewing Plaintiff and Her Son Before Those Experts

Are Deposed (MDL (09-md-2085) Docket No. 1195; Civil (09-CV-769S) Docket No. 286)
is DENIED.

SO ORDERED.
Dated: December 13, 2013
Buffalo, New York
/s/William M. Skretny
WILLIAM M. SKRETNY
Chief Judge
United States District Court

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