Filing a motion to compel document production against opposing parties and nonparties can be a real balancing act when the same parties are involved in multiple lawsuits that essentially revolve around the same core issues.

The litigants seeking to compel the document production need to be certain that they perform strict diligence to ensure they don’t already have the documents that they are asking for. Otherwise, they are can open themselves up to a protracted battle over discovery from the parties being compelled to produce the voluminous documents.

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