Scovill Manufacturing Co. v. Sunbeam Corp.

OPINION AND ORDER

LATCHUM, Chief Judge.

The matters presently before the Court are: (1) the motion of defendant Sunbeam Corporation (“Sunbeam”) under Rule 37, F.R.Civ.P., to compel answers to certain interrogatories propounded to the plaintiff Scovill Manufacturing Company (“Scovill”), and (2) Scovill’s two motions under Rule 26(c) for protective orders to prevent Sunbeam from taking the deposition of Dallett Hoopes (“Hoopes”), Seovill’s house counsel, and to strike Sunbeam’s notice of deposition of certain unnamed Scovill employees. Background facts and prior proceedings in this case are…