Currie v. Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc.

ALDRICH, District Judge.

This motion for production, the second in the case, raises a matter of general import. The question of what constitutes cause within Rule 34, F.R. Civ.P. 28 U.S.C.A., is often difficult, but it seems to me that there are certain somewhat standard situations which may carry their own showing of cause, if cause is to be construed as requiring, in addition to relevance, more-or-less uniqueness of source, and need outweighing any countervailing policy reasons for delaying discovery. Cf. Margeson v. Boston & Maine R. R., D.C.D.Mass., 16 F.R.D. 200. For example, a plaintiff…