Uinta Oil Refining Company v. Continental Oil Company

CHRISTENSEN, District Judge.

Presented for decision upon submitted discovery objections in this antitrust suit 1 are peripheral problems under the “work product doctrine” applied by the Supreme Court in Hickman v. Taylor, 2 as well as the extent and depth to which defendants should be allowed pre-trial access through Rule 33 interrogatories 3 to relevant information within the possession or control of the opposing parties, the questions of burdensomeness, privilege and work product aside. Pervasively shadowing these inquiries is the common experience of mankind that at some inconstant point,…