Diamond and Alliance agree to Modify their Lawsuit Schedule

Discovery can be a very long and difficult process with Diamond Comic Distributors, its trustee Morgan W. Fisher, and Alliance Entertainment are all figuring out. In March 2026, a schedule was put in place regarding a lawsuit between Diamond and Alliance Entertainment spinning out of Alliance’s abandoned bid to purchase Diamond’s assets during the chapter 11 process as well as the counterclaims. In April 2025, Alliance Entertainment submitted a complaint against Diamond accusing Diamond of “fraud” and “deception” as far as their relationship with Wizards of the Coast, the company behind Magic: The Gathering.

Part of that schedule is what’s known as “discovery,” the process of exchanging documents such as emails, text messages, instant messages, basically communication and documents, that have to deal with the case. Each side then goes through the documents to find the ones relevant to the case and they can present that during the court hearing. It can involve millions of documents and be a difficult and long process. Often, lawyers outsource this to companies whose entire business is “e-discovery,” going through those documents and tagging the relevant ones and moving on from those that aren’t.

In an order agreed to by all parties, they have said that this is a “document-intensive case” and the parties have been working in good faith to make the process as easy as possible. One such example is agreeing upon search terms to more easily sort through documents. They state there’s “hundreds of thousands” of documents that are relevant to the discovery request.

The parties have worked diligently to review documents, refine their respective proposed search terms, and balance the needs of this case against the burden of searching through scores of non-responsive and irrelevant documents.

Basically, it can be a labor intensive, pain in the ass process, and they’re struggling.

The parties have gone to the court asking to adjust the schedule for the court case because discovery is just taking that long. It would delay the case about 3 to 6 months for each step.

No trial date has been set.

Below ae the new proposed dates for each step:

You can read the court filings below:

Source: Graphic Policy