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· 2/20/1912

Guardian Fire Ins. v. Central Glass Co.

Citations

  • 194 F. 851
  • 1912 U.S. App. LEXIS 1228

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that an unwieldy record-keeping system, requiring heavy expenditures of time and money to produce relevant documents is not an adequate excuse to refuse discovery
  • requiring production of documents despite fact that record search of 2.8 million invoices would require hundreds of hours and involve $80,000 in copying costs
  • court held party’s unwieldy record-keeping system was not an adequate excuse to frustrate discovery and discovery was not burdensome where party alleged that needed to review “thousands of documents” at a cost of “hundreds of man-hours”

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Judges: Maxey, Pardee, Shelby

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