But now, she fears that suits against cartoonists may go through the discovery stage rather than be dismissed off the bat.

As of July 2012, the case was still in the discovery stage of litigation.

The suit is in the discovery stage, and no trial date has been set, he said.

During the "discovery stage" the producer has to find and acknowledge promising material.

The case is still in the discovery stage, and no trial date has been set.

The judge will often schedule conferences during the discovery stage.

"But," he added, "we're still in the discovery stage."

But the extent to which artists were experimenting with photography by 1970 is still in the discovery stage.

The pretrial discovery stage involved inspection of 140 million pages of documents by teams of lawyers from more than 50 firms.

That lawsuit is currently in the discovery stage.