Beck v. Atlantic Coast PLC

OPINION

STRINE, Vice Chancellor.

I regret having to write this opinion. But the plaintiffs’ lawyers have given me no choice, haying failed to acknowledge their own responsibility for wasting the time of this court and of a defendant in this purported class action by filing false pleadings and failing to produce documents clearly within the scope of a valid request for production. By their conduct, the plaintiff and his lawyers have made this litigation unduly expensive for the defendant, unnecessarily expended the limited resources of this court, and put this court in a position to potentially…