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· 10/17/1994

American Train Dispatchers Department of International Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers v. Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range Railway Co.

Citations

  • 866 F. Supp. 420
  • 1994 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 19621
  • 1994 WL 590876

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that sanctions were not warranted because the subpoenas were not plainly overbroad and there was no evidence of bad faith
  • declining to impose sanctions where subpoena was “not overbroad or improper” and where motion to compel was “substantially justified and not brought in bad faith”
  • finding a subpoena for documents that “were ultimately held to be irrelevant” did not trigger an undue burden justifying sanctions under Fed. R. Civ. P. 45(c)(1) because the request was not “overbroad or improper”
  • “Attorneys do their own clients a disservice—by losing credibility with the court—when they fail to accurately represent facts and then base their legal arguments on these inaccuracies.”
  • “Attorneys do their own clients a disservice—by losing credibility with the court—when they fail to accurately represent facts and then base their legal arguments on these inaccuracies.”

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Judges: Erickson

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