DENA SWACKHAMMER, Plaintiff, v. SPRINT CORPORATION PCS, Defendant., 225 F.R.D. 658

Summary

The plaintiff asserted claims for gender discrimination, alleging that while she was employed as vice-dresident of defendant's strategic business unit, she was subject to disparate treatment. The district court held that defendant was required to respond to plaintiff's interrogatory asking whether defendant had ever failed to terminate an executive who engaged in conduct similar to the conduct for which the plaintiff was terminated. The district court overruled defendant's overbreadth objection. The total number of interrogatories was twenty-four, well within the maximum number of thirty-five. Defendant has waived its relevancy objection, by failing to assert the objection with its initial responses. Defendant failed to show how responding to an interrogatory concerning the written discipline of its employees in "grade E16 through the president" dating back to 1998 would cause an undue burden.