Order Governing Depositions of Expert Witnesses

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Impact area
- Education
Topic
- School Desegregation
LDF Attorneys
Cooperating Attorneys
Organizations
Matter
- Sheff v. O'Neill
Case
- Sheff v. O'Neill
U.S. state
- Connecticut
Collection
- Case Files
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- 4ac499f8-a146-f011-877a-0022482c18b0

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    Cv89-0360977sS 

  

MILO SHEFF, et al. SUPERIOR COURT 

Plaintiffs 

Vv. JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF 
HARTFORD/NEW BRITAIN 

WILLIAM A. O'NEILL, et al. AT HARTFORD 

Defendants 

  

ORDER GOVERNING DEPOSITIONS OF EXPERT WITNESSES 
  

In accordance with the Stipulation of the parties dated June 4, 

1992, the Court now enters the following orders buEsuaRE to Practice 

Book §220(C), in order to insure the expeditious conduct of the 

depositions of expert witnesses. 

1, No formal process beyond the issuance of a notice of 

deposition shall be necessary in order to oblige the party identifying 

an expert witness to produce that expert witness for deposition. If 

either party feels that it is necessary to issue a subpoena duces 

tecum in conjunction with a notice of deposition, counsel for the 

party identifying the expert will accept service of that subpoena on 

behalf of the expert witness. 

2. With regard to expert witnesses who reside in states other 

than Connecticut, the party who intends to call that witness at trial 

will determine whether the deposition will be taken in Connecticut or 

in the witness’s home state. Any costs incurred by the witness for 

travel, lodging, meals or other similar expenses incident to the 

  

 



      

appearance at the deposition shall be the exclusive responsibility of 

the party who intends to call that witness at trial. 

3. The party taking the deposition of an expert under this Order 

shall pay the expert at the hourly rates agreed to by the parties for 

all time spent in the deposition and for a reasonable amount of 

preparation time, not to exceed 3 hours of preparation. 

4. If additional experts are identified in the future, the 

parties shall confer and arrive at comparable rates of payment for 

each such expert. Any dispute resolving deposition rates for future 

experts shall be resolved by the Court. 

5. Reimbursement for the fees associated with the attendance of 

expert witnesses at depositions shall be paid within sixty days of 

submission of an invoice for each expert. 

6. The party listing any person as an expert witness shall 

reimburse the party taking such deposition for any such payments if 

the expert deposed is subsequently not called as a witness at trial. 

The NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc. shall be the 

guarantor with respect to any amounts plaintiffs may owe to defendants 

under this paragraph, and the State Department of Education shall be 

the guarantor with respect to any amounts defendants may owe under 

this paragraph. Such obligations under this paragraph shall not 

exceed $2,500 per deposition. 

7. The defendants may not seek reimbursement from the plaintiffs 

for the time spent in preparation for or at a deposition by any 

  

  

  
 



      

individual who is a regular employee of the State Department of 

Education or the State Department of Housing at the time of their 

deposition regardless of whether the defendants have designated that 

person as an expert witness or not. 

SO ORDERED: 

  

Honorable Harry Hammer 
Superior Court 

Dated this day of June, 1992.

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