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· 9/15/1997

Chudasama v. Mazda Motor Corp.

Citations

  • 123 F.3d 1353
  • 38 Fed. R. Serv. 3d 1494
  • 1997 U.S. App. LEXIS 26389
  • 1997 WL 568682

How courts have described this case

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  • recognizing that “[d]iscovery imposes several costs on the litigant from whom discovery is sought[]” and “discovery imposes burdens on the judicial system; scarce judicial resources must be diverted from other cases to resolve discovery disputes.”
  • recognizing that “[d]iscovery imposes several costs on the litigant from whom discovery is sought[]” and “discovery imposes burdens on the judicial system; scarce judicial resources must be diverted from other cases to resolve discovery disputes.”
  • recognizing that “[d]iscovery imposes several costs on the litigant from whom discovery is sought[]” and “discovery imposes burdens on the judicial system; scarce judicial resources must be diverted from other cases to resolve discovery disputes.”
  • noting that a four-count complaint where each count incorporated by reference all “forty-three numered paragraphs of factual allegations” was “an all-too-typical shotgun pleading”
  • providing that “district courts enjoy broad discretion in deciding how best to manage the cases before them”
  • noting that a complaint is a shotgun pleading when the “reader of the complaint must speculate as to which factual allegations pertain to which count”

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Judges: Tjoflat, Anderson, Nangle

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