Hills Bros. v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• ruling that “[a] failure to respond or object to a discovery request in a timely manner waives any objection which may have been available
• explaining that a failure to respond to a discovery request in a timely manner waives any available objection when a party failed entirely to respond
• holding defendant’s objections to discovery requests waived where responses were served over four months late and plaintiff had made “persistent and exhaustive efforts to prompt the defendant to respond”
• concluding defendant’s objections to discovery requests waived where responses were served over four months late and plaintiff had made “persistent and exhaustive efforts to prompt the defendant to respond”
• “a court may allow discovery of similar accidents provided that the circumstances surrounding the other accidents are similar enough that discovery concerning those incidents is relevant to the circumstances of the instant case”
• “At the time the lift fell over, it was being wheeled around the warehouse by a colleague of Mr. Cohalan’s, and the outriggers with which the lift was equipped in order to prevent tip-over were not set up.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).