Albert D. Johnson v. C.F. Ashby, M.D., and J.E. Stitcher, M.D.

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• noting that federal district courts also must use their discretion to maintain control of their dockets, including restricting the length of trials
• recognizing trial court’s need to control length of trial but also observing that “it may be an abuse of the trial court’s discretion to exclude probative, non-cumulative evidence simply because its introduction will cause delay”
• recognizing trial court’s need to control length of trial but also observing that “it may be an abuse of the trial court’s discretion to exclude probative, non-cumulative evidence simply because its introduction will cause delay”
• stating that it may be an abuse of discretion to exclude “probative, noncumulative evidence” simply to avoid delay and that “limits should be sufficiently flexible to accommodate adjustment if it appears during trial that the court’s initial assessment was too restrictive”
• a judge “not only may but must exercise strict control over the length of trials”
• “It may be an abuse of the trial court’s discretion to exclude probative, non-cumulative evidence simply because its introduction will cause delay, and any time limits formulated in advance of trial must be fashioned with this in mind.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).