Commonwealth Oil Refining Co. v. Lummus Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• “The purpose of a discovery deposition is to discover information; the purpose of a de bene esse deposition is to preserve testimony for trial.”
• “To the extent that the purpose of a deposition is not discovery but to preserve trial testimony, application of the [court’s case management order] to the deposition does not advance” the purpose of facilitating cost-effective discovery

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).