Weeks Office Products, Inc. v. Chemical Bank

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Irma Vidal Santaella, J.) entered on or about April 15, 1991, which granted plaintiffs motion for a protective order to the extent of vacating defendant-appellant’s fourth set of document requests without prejudice to the service of interrogatories and demands for documents, "to the extent needed”, upon completion of plaintiffs examination before trial, is unanimously affirmed, with costs.

IAS did not abuse its discretion by, in effect, staying the use of interrogatories and document discovery until completion of plaintiffs examination before trial. While…