Dismissed Defendant's Employee Seeks to Bar Deposition as Unreasonable

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - An employee of a company that was dismissed from a federal silica lawsuit has moved to quash a subpoena requesting his deposition, stating that the subpoena violates Rule 45 and the deposition would only provide the plaintiffs with duplicative information. Bergman, et al. v. U.S. Silica, et al., No. 06-356 (S.D. Ill.).

Kevin Kuntz, operations manager for Lotz Trucking, alternatively seeks in his Feb. 13 motion a protective order limiting the deposition to occur only at his place of employment, asserting that he works more than 100 miles from the office of plaintiffs' counsel.

Plaintiff …