[dctoedt]

> ...the court supervises a process called discovery ...

Boy, you're sure a glass-is-half-full type, 'rayiner --- my experience in litigation was that:

1) many, many litigation attorneys like to play chicken, doing their utmost to obstruct your discovery (or to demand unreasonable discovery for themselves), stopping just short of making you so mad that you go to the judge; and

2) the vast majority of litigators hate going to the judge, knowing that most judges utterly loathe discovery disputes and basically absent themselves from the discovery process unless they absolutely have to get involved. (There are exceptions; some judges announce that counsel can get them on a conference call just about any time they're not actually on the bench --- not surprisingly, those are the cases where counsel can actually be pretty reasonable ....)

[rayiner]

I mean "supervises" in the same manner as a pre-school teacher "supervises" a class of hyperactive little boys.