Case Name: Elayne Nascimento et al v. Harvard Community Health Plan et al
Court: Massachusetts Superior Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1994-08-17
Citations: 2 Mass. L. Rptr. 568
Docket Number: No. 94-2534
Parties: Elayne Nascimento et al v. Harvard Community Health Plan et al
Judges: 
Reporter: The Massachusetts law reporter.
Volume: 2
Pages: 568–568

Head Matter:
Elayne Nascimento et al v. Harvard Community Health Plan et al
Superior Court, Middlesex, SS
No. 94-2534
Memorandum Dated August 17, 1994

Opinion:
McHugh, J.
Motion #7 of Defendants to Stay Discovery, is DENIED. There is no clean-cut answer to the question of the impact on discovery of administrative inability to meet the 15-day deadline. Under the circumstances of this case, I believe that it would be unj ust to wait any longer. In so saying, I recognize that a negative tribunal finding coupled with an electing by plaintiffs to abandon the action may leave defendants without a source for recovery of the costs. The tribunal statute was designed to cover, nevertheless, in this case. Where time is of the essence, the balance of comparative harm suggests that discovery proceed.