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This dude is such a tard. In that case, the plaintiff tried to depose the defendant Amber Heard by proposing many dates and being extremely accommodating in email correspondence, but Heard's attorneys kept blowing them off and giving them the runaround for 6 months until they filed a motion to compel and asked for sanctions.
Heard's attorneys tried to weasel out of it, in part, by arguing that the motion to compel was premature because the rule requires plaintiffs to meet and confer before filing and that because no such meeting had taken place they shouldn't have to pay for the premature motion.
The trial and appellate courts rejected this argument citing 4 occasions when plaintiff emailed requesting good dates to schedule a deposition that went ignored.
Basically the case stands for the proposition that a motion to compel is not premature and that sanctions should be awarded when an uncooperative party ignores repeated good-faith attempts to schedule things even though a formal "meet and confer" hasn't occurred.
To the non-retarded, this means that Greer should be sanctioned. To Greer, this means that being completely uncooperative through email satisfies his obligations under the rules of civil procedure.