MISSION POWER ENGINEERING COMPANY, etc., Plaintiff, v. CONTINENTAL CASUALTY COMPANY, etc., et al., Defendants., 883 F. Supp. 488

Summary

Plaintiff inadvertently gave to defendant allegedly privileged documents when responding to a request for production of documents. Plaintiff filed an ex parte application for an order shortening time to hear plaintiff's motion to compel the return of the documents. The court denied plaintiff's ex parte application. The court held that plaintiff was not entitled to have the time shortened because plaintiff failed to establish that it would be irreparably prejudiced if its motion was heard on the regular motion calendar and plaintiff failed to establish that it was without fault in creating what it perceived as a crisis situation.