Jansson v. Fairleigh Dickinson University

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that the \sins or faults of an errant attorney should not be visited upon his client absent demonstrable prejudice to the other party\
• reinstating a complaint where an attorney failed to respond to interrogatories and misrepresented the status of the case to the client
• in deciding to relax a discovery rule \we [are not] unmindful of the perils and gravitational pull of the slippery slope wherein the efficacy of our rules is destroyed by the gradual cumulation of exceptions\
• “We believe that in the absence of demonstrable prejudice it is neither necessary nor improper to visit the sins of the attorney upon his blameless client.”
• superseded by statute on other grounds

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).