Legal Opinion

In re "Agent Orange" Product Liability Litigation

District Court, E.D. New York

Decided August 25, 1981No. MDL-381; Nos. CV 81-0207, CV 80-0991PublishedCited by 14 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

GEORGE C. PRATT, District Judge.

' Twelve plaintiffs have moved for permission to have their videotaped depositions taken immediately, prompting all parties to ask the court to reassess the procedures set forth in the Hartz case, 79 C 2752, pretrial order no. 8 (Jan. 18, 1980), governing videotaped depositions.

The court agrees that the ad hoc procedure outlined in Hartz should be reevaluated and that general standards should be instituted so that leave of the court to depose each in extremis plaintiff will be unnecessary. The court has reviewed the proposed orders submitted by plaintiffs and…

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