Fallon v. CBS Inc.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Although a person who is not a party to an action may, by order, be directed to produce documents for discovery and inspection, such an order must specifically designate the documents to be produced (see, CPLR 3120 [b]) in the same manner as a notice to produce (see, CPLR 3120 [a] [1] [i]), and it is therefore incumbent upon the party moving for such an order to describe the documents sought with adequate specificity in its moving papers.
In the present case, the defendants were seeking to obtain, for the most part, "[ejach memorandum, directive, letter or other communique” exchanged between…
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