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Case no. 861947,
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Kellen et al. versus Argo Motors.
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For the plaintiffs, Jedediah Tucker Ward.
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For the defense, Margaret Eleanor Ward.
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I'm glad I'm not going to be
at your house for the holidays.
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I presume the proper waivers
have been signed here.
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- They have, Your Honor.
- OK, what have you got for me?
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The court has before it a discovery motion
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compelling the defendant to supply
the names and current addresses
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of all Argo employees involved in designing
the Meridian model, between 1980 and 1985.
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Response, Miss Ward.
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It doesn't deserve one.
This is a bald-faced fishing expedition.
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People who worked on the car design might
have something interesting to say about it.
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Your Honor, if my esteemed colleague
had the vaguest idea what he was looking for,
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he could narrow his discovery
to something smaller than the phone book.
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Miss Ward, I think he deserves something.
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What he's asking for is out of the question.
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Some of the people haven't worked for Argo
for years. They've scattered to the four winds.
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Generating a current address list
could take thousands of hours.
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- We will give him the names.
- Mr. Ward?
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That's a start, Your Honor.
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The job descriptions and the names are not
of much value without the current addresses.
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Mr. Ward, in all fairness,
I think Miss Ward has proved
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that supplying the addresses
would put an undue burden on the defense.
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I was concerned about that, too, Your Honor,
so I called the pension department at Argo.
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Told them I had a former friend
I was looking for named John Smith.
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Did they have anybody by that name
who worked for the company? They did.
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Called him up on the computer
and gave me his current address.
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- Really?
- An illegal invasion of privacy!