Gaylon Hofer v. Mack Trucks, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “information which does not reasonably bear upon the issues in the case” is generally outside the scope of discovery
• noting that the liberal scope of Rule 26 does not allow parties to engage in “fishing expeditions” and mandating “[s]ome threshold showing of relevance” for discovery requests
• explaining that Rule 26(b) does not “allow fishing expeditions in discovery” and that a party must first make a “threshold showing of relevance” of the evidence requested
• noting that the liberal scope of Rule 26 does not allow parties to engage in “fishing expeditions” and mandating “[s]ome threshold showing of relevance” for discovery requests
• stating that Rule 26 “is liberal in scope and interpretation, extending to those matters which are relevant and reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence”
• stating that Rule 26 “is liberal in scope and interpretation, extending to those matters which are relevant and reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).