Anne Anderson v. Beatrice Foods Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that the hard-to-meet standard of abuse of discretion is a \rule ... anchored in common sense\ and quoting Fashion House, Inc. v. K Mart Corp., 892 F.2d 1076, 1082 (1st Cir. 1989
• affirming the district court’s finding that a party’s failure to disclose a relevant report on pollution during discovery did not “sink to the level of fraud on the court”
• trial court did not err in refusing to grant a new trial based upon plaintiffs' speculation that they would find evidence helpful to their claim
• in fashioning a sanction, it is important that “the punishment should be reasonably suited to the crime”
• “The trial judge is best positioned to decide what sanction best fits a particular case or best responds to a particular episode or pattern of errant conduct.”
• “Sanctions, under both Rules 11 and 37, serve dual purposes of deterrence and compensation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).