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Courts have consistently recognized that the right to discovery is "not absolute" and must be balanced against competing interests, including the burden and expense imposed on the responding party

Where the responding party objects to discovery as overbroad, burdensome, or oppressive, the propounding party must establish good cause for the discovery sought, and the Court must weigh the burden of the discovery against its likely benefit

4th 1539, 1546 (Discovery requests must be "reasonably particularized" and not constitute a "fishing expedition"); West Pico Furniture Co

California courts have consistently held that discovery must be reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence, and that discovery requests must be "reasonably particularized" rather than constituting a "fishing expedition

3d 844, 859 (Discovery must be weighed against the right of privacy and other countervailing interests)