Al Barnett & Son, Inc. v. Outboard Marine Corporation

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Litigants may oppose discovery requests by seeking a protective order from the court ... they cannot be permitted to frustrate discovery by refusing to comply with a proper request.”
• “[A] direct order by the Court, as Rule 37(a) and (b) requires, is not a necessary predicate to imposing penalties under Rule 37(d).”
• dismissal without prior order under Rule 37(d) where party failed to attend deposition
• “The full record reveals a course of conduct that frustrates the fundamental purpose underlying the discovery rules to provide adequate information to litigants in civil trials.”
• direct order by court is not necessary predicate to imposing sanctions under Rule 37(d)
• no discussion of issue, but deriving information from records was clearly burdensome

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).