MOTION TO TAX COSTS
TENTATIVE RULING: Defendant Mariah Bryant moves to tax costs in the amount of $38,577.66 by reducing deposition costs (item 4), witness fees (item 8), models, enlargements, and exhibits (item 12), fees for electronic filing or service (item 14), and fees for hotels, mileage, and gas and groceries (item 16). At the outset, plaintiff Margaret Jake O’Kelly withdraws $6.45 for unwarranted travel costs for Erin Bigler, Ph.D, and $550 for Richard Olcese, Psy.D. A tax of costs is warranted in the amount of $556.45.
A. Deposition Costs (Item 4)
Bryant argues the $5,426.45 in depositions costs are unrecoverable. Bryant challenges the $120 fee charged for an employee from plaintiff’s attorney’s firm to use a video camera during Bryant’s deposition, and the $4,580 costs for taking the depositions of Elaine Serina, Ph.D., Bruce Adornato, M.D., Jerome Barakos, M.D., Joanna Berg, Ph.D, and Michael Diliberto.1 The costs associated with taking and video recording the deposition is
Hearing Date
November 02, 2018
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MOTION TO TAX COSTS
TENTATIVE RULING: Defendant Mariah Bryant moves to tax costs in the amount of $38,577.66 by reducing deposition costs (item 4), witness fees (item 8), models, enlargements, and exhibits (item 12), fees for electronic filing or service (item 14), and fees for hotels, mileage, and gas and groceries (item 16). At the outset, plaintiff Margaret Jake O’Kelly withdraws $6.45 for unwarranted travel costs for Erin Bigler, Ph.D, and $550 for Richard Olcese, Psy.D. A tax of costs is warranted in the amount of $556.45.
A. Deposition Costs (Item 4)
Bryant argues the $5,426.45 in depositions costs are unrecoverable. Bryant challenges the $120 fee charged for an employee from plaintiff’s attorney’s firm to use a video camera during Bryant’s deposition, and the $4,580 costs for taking the depositions of Elaine Serina, Ph.D., Bruce Adornato, M.D., Jerome Barakos, M.D., Joanna Berg, Ph.D, and Michael Diliberto.1 The costs associated with taking and video recording the deposition is