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· 12/30/2003

H. Donald Ratliff, Frank H. Cullen, and John J. Jarvis v. Davis Polk & Wardwell, Baan Company, N v. Amal M. Johnson, Jaan Baan and Tom Tinsley

Citations

  • 354 F.3d 165
  • 57 Fed. R. Serv. 3d 578
  • 2003 U.S. App. LEXIS 26327
  • 2003 WL 23025548

How courts have described this case

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

  • “Where a district court exercises its discretion premised on the misapplication of a legal principle, the court by definition abuses its discretion and makes an error of law.”
  • “I would have told him what I’ve heard from my attorney, of course.”
  • emphasizing the “strong policy considerations favoring full and complete discovery”

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Judges: Newman, Sotomayor, Wesley

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