United States v. BECTON DICKINSON & COMPANY

WORTENDYKE, District Judge.

In the course of several pretrial discovery motions in this Government civil antitrust case, the Court is presently called upon to rule upon plaintiff’s motion, made pursuant to Rule 34 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, for an order requiring the defendant to produce and permit plaintiff’s inspection and copying of 118 specific documents listed in the notice of motion. In his affidavit in support of the motion, the attorney for the Government characterizes the documents, for the production of which the motion is brought, as consisting generally of “writings…