Gaines v. Western New York Savings Bank

How courts have described this case

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• holding that there is a “widely accepted tenet that the motives of municipal commissioners in enacting ordinances of a legislative character are irrelevant and are not the proper subject of judicial inquiry”
• “The right of discovery does not extend to matters which are irrelevant or which cannot reasonably be expected to lead to the discovery of relevant matters.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).