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Interrogatory or subpoena on a witness

On Law StackExchange a litigant in pro per outlined the following scenario. Unfortunately his post got censored there, that being the fate of many interesting, practical inquiries. "I have sued a California mobile-home park LLC for breach of contract and a couple of additional issues. The park manager's failure to properly and lawfully manage the park (which I told the real estate company that owns the park about) are the reason for the suit. She is mentioned as part of the problem, but she is not named as a defendant. Now I need to request discovery from her, but I'm not sure if she is a "party to the action" whom I should give an interrogatory--or a non-party witness whom I would subpoena information from. Is employee manager a party to the action?" Regarding your claim of breach of contract, the only entity to be named as defendant is the one with which you entered the contract. Your contract is with the company, whether it is the LLC or --if different--

The case Walters v OpenAI

By Iñaki Viggers. The defamation case Mark Walters v. OpenAI is a reminder of everyone's duty to make judicious use of Artificial Intelligence. Despite being mindful that AI is largely devised for subduing humankind, my view is that OpenAI will and should prevail in this controversy. Background According to Walters's complaint pleadings , journalist Fred Riehl notified Walters of content fabricated by OpenAI's ChatGPT that is blatantly false and defames Walters. The alleged context was Riehl's so-called research on the matter of  The Second Amendment Foundation v. Robert Ferguson in federal court, a case that does not involve Walters at all. The complaint Walters filed in GA state court provides details of ChatGPT's fabrication, aka hallucination in the crappy (and creepy) AI hell. Walters seeks relief for libel per se. OpenAI sought removal to federal court, where Walters's attorney filed an amended complaint . The amended complaint in federal court mostly a