EAST REX USA, INC. A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION VS. SEAKER & SONS, A CALIFORNIA GENERAL PARTNERSHIP ET AL

SF Superior Court - Law & Motion / Discovery Dept 302 - CPF22517696 - July 14, 2026 Hearing date: July 14, 2026 Case number: CPF22517696 Case title: EAST REX USA, INC. A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION VS. SEAKER & SONS, A CALIFORNIA GENERAL PARTNERSHIP ET AL Case Number: | | CPF22517696 | Case Title: | | EAST REX USA, INC. A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION VS. SEAKER & SONS, A CALIFORNIA GENERAL PARTNERSHIP ET AL | Court Date: | | 2026-07-14 09:00 AM | Calendar Matter: | | Notice Of Motion And Motion To Compel Further Deposition Of Non-Party Witness Bill Leung; Memorandum Of Points And Authorities; Declaration Of Counsel | Rulings: | | Matter on calendar for Tuesday, July 14, 2026, Line 10, CROSS DEFENDANT J. REPPERT, ESQ., REPPERT, KELLY & VYTELL, LLC's Motion To Compel Further Deposition Of Non-Party Witness Bill Leung.

Cross-defendants J. Vincent Reppert and Reppert, Kelly & Vytell's motion to compel further deposition of non-party witness Bill Leung is denied. Moving parties have not shown good cause for the relief that they seek.

The discovery statutes set a presumptive limit of seven hours of deposition time per deponent. Moving parties chose to end Leung's deposition with 46 minutes remaining after having asked him questions about only four or fewer documents that had been recently produced by Leung and others.

The only factual support for moving parties' request for an additional session of Leung's deposition is that the deposition questioner "had not been able to ask questions regarding the enormous amount of documents" that had recently been produced by Leung and others. From this thin support it is not clear whether the deposition questioner had reviewed the "enormous amount of documents" before the start of Leung's deposition or whether she had and simply chose not to use any of the remaining 46 minutes to ask questions about all but at most four of those documents.

If the former, which is the more likely scenario given the tenor of the moving papers, then moving parties should have accepted Leung's offer to reschedule the deposition for another day instead of proceeding with the deposition with the knowledge that not all potentially pertinent documents for the deposition had been reviewed and thus would almost certainly be seeking a second session of Leung's deposition and more than seven hours for that deposition.

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