Donna Reilly, Etc. v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• upholding denial of discovery request where supposedly aggrieved party did not accept the magistrate's invitation to renew it at a later date
• reviewing appointment of technical advis- or for an abuse of discretion
• discussing difference between expert witnesses and technical advisors under Federal Rule 706
• “appointment of a technical advisor must arise out of some cognizable judicial need for specialized skills”
• “[D]amages in an FTCA suit . . . must be assessed in conformity with state law.”
• “When a tortfeasor loses at trial, then — absent a statute or the parties’ contrary agreement, ... — it must pay the judgment in one fell swoop.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).