Johnson v. Reconstruction Finance Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “when a party fails to assert an objection in its initial response to the discovery request and raises it for the first time in response to a motion to compel, the objection is deemed waived”
• holding that “when a party fails to assert an objection in its initial response to the discovery request and raises it for the first time in response to a motion to compel, the objection is deemed waived”
• holding document requests were not particular enough if they required “‘the respondent either to guess or move through mental gymnastics’” to determine what documents “‘may conceivably contain some detail . . . within the scope of the request.’”
• finding objections initially raised but not relied upon in response to the motion to compel will be deemed abandoned.
• both holding that the mere assertion that documents were produced as kept in the ordinary course of business is insufficient to fulfill requirements of the governing rule
• “The Court cannot compel the production of documents that do not exist or that are not in the possession, custody or control of a party.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).