{"id":6014,"date":"2025-05-23T21:45:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T21:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/judge-rejects-john-deeres-efforts-to-shield-cfo-from-farmers-deposition\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T21:45:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T21:45:56","slug":"judge-rejects-john-deeres-efforts-to-shield-cfo-from-farmers-deposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/judge-rejects-john-deeres-efforts-to-shield-cfo-from-farmers-deposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Rejects John Deere&#8217;s Efforts to Shield CFO From Farmers&#8217; Deposition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>John Deere&#8217;s chief financial officer and senior vice president is fair game to be deposed after a federal judge this week rejected the company&#8217;s attempts to block multi-district litigation plaintiffs from deposing the executive about whether John Deere considers a &#8220;right to repair&#8221; legislation in preparing financial reports. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.alm.com\/a9\/c6\/9f9d48664126a2db30014a2cc84a\/show-temp-2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" link-data=\"{\" cms.site.owner=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Monday<\/a>, U.S. District Judge Iain D. Johnston for the Northern District of Illinois denied John Deere&#8217;s requests for a protective order after the company tried to use an apex witness doctrine that limited &#8220;overly burdensome discovery requests&#8221; for top-level executives of a corporation. Deere &amp; Co., the parent company of the agricultural manufacturing company, sought to block its CFO and SVP Joshua Jepsen from being deposed. John Deere&#8217;s motion relied on the apex witness doctrine, &#8220;a common law mechanism to limit overly burdensome discovery requests directed at top-level executive officers of a corporation or entity, particularly where the deposition has certain harassing qualities,'&#8221; the opinion said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Deere&#8217;s chief financial officer and senior vice president is fair game to be deposed after a federal judge this week rejected the company&#8217;s attempts to block multi-district [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6068,6067,1075,2104,6069,3332,423,697,5829],"class_list":["post-6014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-cfo","tag-deeres","tag-deposition","tag-efforts","tag-farmers","tag-john","tag-judge","tag-rejects","tag-shield"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}