Opinion ID: 414451
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: The Selph Deposition

Text: 100 The trial court granted AT & T special leave to take the deposition of a Litton employee who had been discharged in connection with the San Mateo incident. In granting AT & T's request to take this deposition, the trial court limited discovery to those matters made relevant as a result of Litton's eleventh-hour disclosure of the Roberts notes. AT & T argues that some of Selph's deposition testimony that the PCA device had no effect on Litton's sales should have been admitted, particularly in view of the fact that the trial court allowed Litton to introduce deposition testimony outside the scope of a similar special leave. We attribute this difference in treatment to a difference in the content of the testimony. In granting special leave to take the Selph deposition the trial court imposed certain limitations that AT & T ignored; the discretion involved in reopening discovery could be cast aside if parties could ignore such limitations with impunity. In any event, the cumulative nature of the evidence excluded belies any claim that AT & T was prejudiced.