Levinson
BENTON – In 22 days, a highway crash generated two suits against Hirschbach Motor Lines and a sealed emergency motion for a deep and wide discovery order.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Reona Daly blocked the blitz, finding no authority in statute, rule or case law for such an order.
She asked for a reason to seal the motion and when she didn’t get an answer, she unsealed it.
It would have required defendants and others to preserve 20 kinds of evidence including social media data of Hirschbach driver Eric Campbell for six years.
The accident occurred on Dec. 13, around 6:30 a.m., on southbound Interstate 57 at West Frankfort in Franklin County.