The DISH DBS and DISH Wireless UCC is asking Judge Christopher Lopez to compel the debtors to comply with the committee’s Rule 2004 document requests, alleging that the debtors have imposed a “unilateral, one-way and unauthorized discovery pause” while continuing to demand discovery from tower counterparties in the tower claims litigation.
The UCC via counsel Akin Gump is continuing to put pressure on the debtors’ proposed restructuring counsel White & Case, whose appointment the UCC has already opposed. In this motion, the UCC targets the White & Case partner (whose name was not disclosed) involved in the debtors’ discovery response, claiming that the partner acknowledged during a 28 August meet-and-confer that he was unaware of the procedures under Local Rule 2004-1, including “the elimination of the requirement for motion practice and a court order before Rule 2004 discovery may be sought” and the local rule’s “response and production deadlines.” The UCC calls it a “shocking” admission, and also “wholly consistent with the Debtors’ uncooperative approach to the Committee’s discovery efforts as of that date.”
The emergency motion to compel asks Judge Lopez to require the debtors to produce all remaining documents responsive to three sets of Rule 2004 requests...
