In Re Frank Randolph Kelly and Lacy Paige Brooks v. the State of Texas

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• concluding that failure to completely and directly answer interrogatories, as well as failure to supplement inadequate responses, demonstrated \intolerable gamesmanship and obstructiveness\
• finding that giving evasive and incomplete answers to discovery requests and failing to supplement those answers was willful bad faith, demonstrating “intolerable gamesmanship and obstructiveness”
• affirming default judgment on liability based on \knowing concealment\ of unfavorable expert opinion regarding central issue
• “Playing loose and fast with the rules of discovery, in the guise of advocacy, is equivalent to playing Russian roulette with only one chamber empty—it cannot be relied upon to lead to a favorable result.”
• ambiguous statute of limitations to be interpreted to allow the longer period in which to prosecute the action
• ambiguous statute of limitations to be interpreted to allow the longer period in which to prosecute the action

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