Burns v. Michelotti

How courts have described this case

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• imposing a very light \sanction\ in view of the \minimal nature of the contact in question and its lack of relevance to the substance of the case\
• finding any ex parte communication between defense counsel and treating physician, regardless of what information is actually revealed, to be improper and sanctionable, although where communication is of de minimis nature a court may refuse to impose sanctions in its discretion
• finding any ex parte communication between defense counsel and treating physician, regardless of what information is actually revealed, to be improper and sanctionable, although where communication is of de minimis nature a court may refuse to impose sanctions in its discretion
• “In presenting their arguments to the jury, counsel may state what they believe the law to be as long as their remarks are not misleading.”
• “In presenting their arguments to the jury, counsel may state what they believe the law to be as long as their remarks are not misleading.”
• “In presenting their arguments to the jury, counsel may state what they believe the law to be as long as their remarks are not misleading.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).