A retailer’s belief that a security-camera recording will impeach a slip-and-fall plaintiff’s testimony is not grounds to delay its production in discovery, a federal judge held last week, rejecting Walmart’s request to withhold the evidence until the plaintiff’s deposition.

A New York appeals panel has affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a former employee of a health management company who alleged he was fired because he is white, finding that the plaintiff had failed to rebut the company’s evidence that he was terminated for drinking and sleeping on the job.

A federal judge has excused compliance with a discovery agreement that would have required the plaintiff to produce an estimated 65 million documents, finding it would cost too much to screen them for privilege and saying the case “highlights the dangers of carelessness and inattention in e-discovery.”

A Brooklyn judge was right to exclude testimony in a personal injury action from experts who said the plaintiff developed cirrhosis by taking Tylenol while offering little clinical data to support their opinion, a unanimous New York appellate panel has ruled.

Abrasive and impolite comments by a manager or co-workers may make for an unpleasant workplace, but if the comments are directed toward everyone, it’s not actionable under New Jersey’s anti-discrimination law, a state appeal court has ruled in a case where the plaintiff was the sole female employee.