Berrain v. Katzen

How courts have described this case

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• holding that trial court abused its discretion by dismissing claims of minor plaintiffs based on discovery failures of next friend who sued on behalf of minor plaintiffs
• holding that a trial court abused its discretion in dismissing the case when the plaintiff was a minor represented by a next friend because “the trial court has a special duty to protect the rights and interests of the minor ...”
• suggesting that a next friend is “ ‘an officer of the court’,” who “ ‘stands very much in the relation of an attorney to the case.’ ”
• diselosure of all facts promotes fairness and sound administration of justice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).