Estate of Rubinstein v. United States

RULING ON PLAINTIFF’S APPLICATION FOR A PROTECTIVE ORDER AND DEFENDANT’S MOTION TO COMPEL

SWEENEY, Judge.

Before the court are plaintiffs application for a protective order limiting the scope of discovery (“application”) and defendant’s motion for an order to compel plaintiff to answer certain interrogatories and produce certain documents (“motion to compel”). In this tax refund case, plaintiff, the decedent’s estate, seeks to recover the decedent’s alleged overpayment of his 2001 income taxes. *642Plaintiff asserts that the decedent suffered from a mental and physical disability at the time he…