Bloomberg Law
Aug. 28, 2015, 1:18 PM UTC

Unusual Sanctions for Jones Day Lawyer Rejected

Ellen Rosen

A federal judge’s unusual ruling in which he required a Jones Day partner to create and distribute a firm- wide video delineating good discovery practices has been overturned.

U.S. District Judge Mark Bennett had imposed sanctions last year on his own after reviewing depositions during a trial against Abbott Laboratories over allegedly tainted baby formula.

The lawyer, he said, had, among other things, objected multiple times to questions throughout the course of at least two depositions, a practice he objected to.

The federal appeals court, however, rejected the sanctions.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, in a ...

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