Alexander v. Jackson Radiology Associates

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that Rule 37 does not “explicitly provide for sanctions for discovery abuse absent a court order”
• reviewing the “totality of the circumstances presented” in determining that sanctions were warranted pursuant to the trial court’s “inherent authority to take actions to prevent abuse of the discovery process”
• involving a situation where there was “blatant, inexcusable, [and] repeated lying” about discovery abuse
• affirming award of sanctions even when non-compliance with an order was not at issue
• recognizing the trial court’s “inherent authority”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

42 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

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• Pegues v. Illinois Central Railroad
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2008-07-22· cited 32×
• Boles v. National Development Co., Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2005-04-26· cited 32×
• Langlois v. ENERGY AUTOMATION SYSTEMS, INC.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2009-12-21· cited 27×
• Clark Construction Group, Inc. v. City of Memphis
  W.D. Tennessee· 2005-03-14· cited 18×
• Welch v. Welch
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2005-09-13· cited 11×
• Roberto Carlos Urtuzuastegui a/k/a Jose M. Carrion-Casillas v. George D. Kirkland
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2011-03-17· cited 3×
• John A. Gardner v. R & J Express, LLC
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2018-05-07· cited 1×
• American Express Centurion Bank v. John Lowrey
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-03-11
• Bobby Murray v. Dennis Miracle
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2011-09-08
• State of Tennessee ex rel William L. Gibbons, District Attorney General v. Clayton R. Smart
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2008-10-08
• Robert T. Hogan v. Illinois Central Railroad Company
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2008-08-04
• Raymond Clayton Murray, Jr. v. Jes Beard, Esquire
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2007-08-29
• Terre Jo Fields v. James R. Fields, Jr.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2007-07-31
• Heather Michele Cohen and Adam Cohen v. Trisha Clarke and Michelle Julian
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2014-01-10
• James C. Loden, M.D., P.C. d/b/a Loden Vision Centers, and James C. Loden, M. D., Individually v. Gerald Michael Schmidt
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2015-04-23
• Lesa C. Williams v. Renard A. Hirsch, Sr.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2018-05-25
• Specialtycare IOM Services, LLC v. Medsurant Holdings, LLC
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2018-07-06
• Vickie Groves v. Ernst-Western Corporation
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2018-07-26
• Solomon Menche v. White Eagle Property Group, LLC
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2019-08-26

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Bowden v. Ward
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2000-10-02· cited 568×
• White v. Vanderbilt University
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1999-12-30· cited 502×
• Mercer v. Vanderbilt University, Inc.
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2004-05-03· cited 268×
• Lyle v. Exxon Corp.
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1988-03-07· cited 85×
• Taylor v. Beard
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2003-05-02· cited 39×