Not all discovery was completed and disputes remained about some document requests and unscheduled depositions well into March 2020, when, during a case management conference, plaintiff was invited to move for, among other things: another discovery extension the right to conduct certain depositions reconsideration of an order barring Nestor Crespo 1 from testifying at trial because he failed to appear for a subpoenaed deposition an amendment to the complaint to add a civil conspiracy claim and the turnover of all use-of-force reports for all Bound Brook police officers. Plaintiff filed a complaint in October 2017 in the Somerset vicinage against the Borough of Bound Brook and numerous of its police officers alleging, under various legal theories, that he was physically beaten, at times while handcuffed, when arrested by Bound Brook police officers two years earlier.ĭiscovery was extended on a number of occasions and proceeded into early February 2020. In summarily deciding this interlocutory appeal and vacating the order under review, we write chiefly to point out commonly misunderstood distinctions between motions seeking reconsideration of final orders and motions seeking reconsideration of interlocutory orders.įor context, we briefly recount the circumstances that have brought us here. The opinion of the court was delivered by FISHER, P.J.A.D.
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