Sapia v. Bd. of Educ. of Chi.

Jeffrey Cole, UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

The defendant has filed its third motion to quash a subpoena in the last few weeks. The subpoena at issue this time, served on non-party Alicia Winckler, is a rerun of the subpoena the plaintiffs served on her in May 2017. [Dkt. # 146-2, # 270-1, at 2/107]. There is, perhaps, no surer sign that a case has gone on too long - more accurately, that discovery has gone on too long - than when the parties have so exhausted topics to quarrel over that they return to previous topics from years past.

There is a general overriding public interest in the prompt…