NAACP Opposes Discovery Stay in S.C. Data Scraping Case

NAACP opposed South Carolina courts’ motion to stay discovery in a data scraping case at the U.S. District Court of South Carolina. The NAACP and American Civil Liberties Union sued the South Carolina State Court Administration in March for banning automated data collection (case 3:2022-cv-01007). The state court defendants asked Nov. 4 to stay discovery pending a decision on their July motion to dismiss the case. “Defendants fall far short of carrying their ‘heavy’ or ‘heightened’ burden to show good cause for such a stay,” the South Carolina State Conference of NAACP said Tuesday.