In re Brown Co. Securities Litigation

ALVIN B. RUBIN, District Judge:

OPINION ON MOTION TO QUASH SUBPOENA

The plaintiffs’ effort to depose employees of Bear, Stearns & Co., is opposed by the defendants and by the deponents, jointly. They seek to quash or limit the subpoena for deposition on the ground that the deponents are within the class of experts from whom discovery is narrowly limited by Rule 26(b) (4) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Defendants assert that, because “Bear, Stearns & Co.” will be called at the trial as an expert witness for the defendants, their employees are therefore within the class of experts for…