Bogan v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance

MEMORANDUM ORDER

VINCENT L. BRODERICK, District Judge.

I

In this insurance agency termination case involving antitrust and other claims, plaintiffs appeal from a ruling by United States Magistrate Judge Mark D. Fox declining to authorize nonstenographic transcriptions of depositions pursuant to Fed. R.Civ.P. 30(b)(4). I affirm the ruling of the Magistrate Judge.

Whether or not to permit non-steno-graphically recorded depositions is discretionary under Fed.R.Civ.P. 30(b)(4) and International Union v. National Caucus, 525 F.2d 323 (2d Cir.1975). The Magistrate Judge reasonably exercised discretion…