Hicks v. Nix

How courts have described this case

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• reviewing the Advisory Committee note and finding in that case that “accordingly, the Court must consider whether the burdens imposed on the hospitals’ privacy and other interests sufficiently outweigh the needs of the parties to warrant relief.”
• “[District courts have ... ‘broad powers ... to regulate or prevent discovery even though the materials sought are within the scope of [Rule] 26(b), and these powers have always been freely exercised.’ ”
• the trial court’s power to limit discovery may be employed where the burden is not monetary expense but “lies instead in the adverse consequences of the disclosure of sensitive, albeit unprivileged, material”
• the trial court’s power to limit discovery may be employed where the burden is not monetary expense but “lies instead in the adverse consequences of the disclosure of sensitive, albeit unprivileged, material”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).