Blashum v. St. Joseph & St. Mary Catholic Benefit Society

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “actual notice to the defendant of the witness” is a factor to consider before precluding a witness’s testimony
• holding that even disallowing a party to call any witness is not necessarily “tantamount to a dismissal”
• holding that a trial court abused its discretion when it failed to consider the Dean factors before disallowing a party to call any witnesses as a sanction
• holding that the trial court abused its discretion by barring presentation of a witnesses as a sanction for not filing a witness list as required by the scheduling order
• “Disallowing a party to call witnesses can be a severe punishment, equivalent to a dismissal.”
• “Once a limited liability company comes into existence, limited liability applies, and a member or manager is not liable for the acts, debts, or obligations of the company.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).