Iris v. Rivera-Flores v. Puerto Rico Telephone Company

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that Article II, 1 and 8 operate ex proprio vigore to make violators liable for tort damages
• explaining that “it may amount to an abuse of discretion for a trial court to decline to reopen in circumstances where the movant has demonstrated ‘reasonably genuine surprise’ ”
• noting defendant not unduly prejudiced where “introduction of [] readily obtainable documentary evidence could have entailed but minimal delay”
• observing the plaintiff possesses the \burden of introducing evidence at trial on every element essential to her claim\
• “Trial courts as a rule act within their discretion in refusing to reopen a case where the proffered ‘new’ evidence is insufficiently probative to offset the procedural disruption caused by reopening.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).