Hoey v. Hawkins

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that “a trial decision should result from a disinterested search for truth from all the available evidence rather than tactical maneuvers based on the calculated manipulation of evidence and its production” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• holding a party’s “failure to update responses short-circuits [the discovery] mechanism and lays the groundwork for trial by ambush,” and warning that to permit such tactics “would be to condone the surprise-advantage” gained by flouting discovery rules
• “[A] trial decision should result from a disinterested search for truth from all the available evidence . . . .”
• “Discovery and pretrial practices usually result in the narrowing and clarifying of issues so as to shorten trials and to bring about a greater degree of clarity and justice in the presentation of facts to juries.”
• “Discovery and pretrial practices usually result in the narrowing and clarifying of issues so as to shorten trials and to bring about a greater degree of clarity and justice in the presentation of facts to juries.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).