Hamilton v. Estelle

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• noting that “the presumption appears to be merely a decision rule that facilitates determination when other relevant factors do not favor one side over the other”
• finding sanctions could be imposed under 37(d) where corporate representative “was wholly unable to render testimony regarding one of the three subject areas for which he was designated”
• \`Producing an unprepared witness is tantamount to a failure to appear.'\
• ordering discovery of documents held by defendant’s assignor even though defendant claimed it lacked control over the documents sought by plaintiff and “the Assignment contains no explicit assurance that DIB would have the ability to obtain” those documents
• Defendant ordered to produce documents in the possession of its co-defendant's successor-in-interest, who was not a party to the action.
• deponent must be prepared “to the extent matters are reasonably available, whether from documents, past employees, or other sources.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).