In Re Application of Lance Eisenberg

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming order concluding that a petitioner’s civil discovery request was a disguised attempt to obtain criminal discovery otherwise unavailable to him
• “[Ljiberal civil discovery procedures [are] not a 'back door’ to information otherwise beyond reach under the criminal discoveiy rules.”
• “[L]iberal civil discovery procedures [are] not a ‘back door’ to information otherwise beyond reach under the criminal discovery rules.”
• “A person contemplating litigation has no absolute entitlement to early discovery . . . .”
• “Due process is a flexible concept. The lesser the interest of which a person stands to be deprived, the fewer the procedural safeguards afforded to him by the Constitution.”
• prelitigation discovery request denied where petitioner was subject of pending grand jury investigation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).