Angered by what he described as "stonewalling" of discovery demands by Nassau County in a pending civil rights action, a federal magistrate judge last week ordered an assistant county attorney to pay $500 a day in sanctions until the county complies.
"This action has been pending for twenty-nine months and the County Defendants have failed to turn over a single document in discovery, despite plaintiff’s persistent demands," Eastern District Magistrate Judge E. Thomas Boyle (See Profile), sitting in Central Islip, wrote on March 26 in Smith v. County of Nassau, 10-cv-4874.
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