Opinion and Order: Tompkins v. Detroit Metropolitan Airport d/b/a Wayne County Airport Authority; in slip-and-fall case; discovery overly broad; no rummaging without predicate showing; airline requested that customer sign authorizations to release records from plaintiff’s social networking website account; social networking website account was protected from discovery as irrelevant and overly broad; “[The] Defendant does not have a generalized right to rummage at will through information that Plaintiff has limited from public view. Rather, […] there must be a threshold showing that the requested information is reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence. Otherwise, the Defendant would be allowed to engage in the proverbial fishing expedition, in the hope that there might be something of relevance in Plaintiff’s Facebook account.”
Document Details
State:
Michigan
Court:
United States District Court, E.D. Michigan, Southern Division
Court Type:
Federal Trial Court
Style of Case:
Slip-and-fall
Victims Counsel:
Gregory M. Janks, Sachs Waldman, Detroit, MI; Rick J. Patterson, Steven M. Potter, Potter, DeAgostino, O'Dea & Patterson, Auburn Hills, MI
Defendant:
Detroit Metropolitan Airport d/b/a Wayne County Airport Authority
Perpetrator:
N/A
Document Type:
Pleading
Pleading Type:
N/A
Argument Category:
N/A
Arguments Summary:
N/A
Desposition Type:
N/A
Deponent Name:
N/A
Expert Report Type:
N/A
Expert Name:
N/A
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