Waters v. City of Chicago

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

MILTON I. SHADUR, Senior District Judge.

Among the numerous issues on which the litigants have crossed swords, the most recent has to do with the appropriate application of Fed.R.Civ.P. (“Rule”) 26(b)(4)(C), which requires a party — in this case the City of Chicago (“City”) — to “pay the expert a reasonable fee for time spent in responding to discovery.” When City chose to take the deposition of Gary Skoog (“Skoog”), the opinion witness who was retained by Daniel Waters (“Waters”) to provide testimony as to his claimed damages, Skoog itemized his expenditure of…