East Boston Ecumenical Community Council, Inc. v. Mastrorillo

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER ON MOTION FOR ORDER GOVERNING THE TAKING OF DEPOSITIONS OF PERSONS NOT PROFICIENT IN ENGLISH (#47)

ROBERT B. COLLINGS, United States Magistrate.

The defendants seek to take the depositions of some of the plaintiffs. Plaintiffs’ counsel asserts that the plaintiffs whom the defendants wish to depose (hereinafter, “the deponents”) do not speak English and, therefore, interpreters are needed. Defendants’ counsel is doubtful that the deponents are so lacking in proficiency in English that the depositions could not be taken without interpreters but, in any event, asserts that…