The country’s top chicken producers failed in their bid to keep discovery in the sprawling price-fixing case against them paused, when a Chicago federal magistrate ruled that their arguments against remote depositions during the Covid-19 pandemic went too far.
“Courts are beginning to recognize that a ‘new normal’ has taken hold throughout the country in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic that may necessitate the taking of remote depositions unless litigation is going to come to an indefinite halt until there is a cure or a vaccine,” Magistrate Judge Jeffrey T. Gilbert wrote Thursday.
“The parties and their counsel are ...