Legal Opinion
Baine v. General Motors Corp.
District Court, M.D. Alabama
Decided December 3, 1991No. Civ. A. No. 91-T-184-SPublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
CARROLL, United States Magistrate Judge.
The defendant, General Motors Corporation, has moved for a protective order to quash the deposition notice of Edward H. Mertz, a vice president of the corporation. Mr. Mertz had, in 1976, written a memorandum distributed to 18 General Motors employees that described his observations of the performance of a 1978 prototype vehicle’s restraint system. These observations were based on his experience of having driven the car for several days. Plaintiffs’ counsel is interested in the subject matter of that memorandum, contending for its relevance to the…
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