Bunkley v. Minnesota

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the preponderance of evidence standard should apply to terminating 4 sanctions
• “[Falsifying evidence to secure á court victory” constitutes a fraud on the court because it “undermines the most basic foundations of our judicial system.”
• rejecting a clear-and-convincing evidence requirement for sanctions im- posed under both Rule 37 and the court’s inherent authority
• imposing sanctions where the plaintiff paid witnesses to testify in his favor at a deposition
• presumption in federal civil case that burden is proof by a preponderance of the evidence
• \[W]itness tampering is among the most grave abuses of the judicial process . . . .\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).