Kaufman v. American Family Mutual Insurance

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• recognizing this “deferential standard of review,” and stating “that a district court is in the best position to define the scope of the discovery orders and attendant protective orders it issues”
• upholding a district court’s determination that a telephone call from a judge’s law clerk to counsel was harmless and warranted no further investigation or sanctions
• upholding a district court’s determination that a telephone call from a judge’s law clerk to counsel was harmless and warranted no further investigation or sanctions
• affirming district court's sanction ordering attorney to pay fees incurred by opposing party in preparing motion for sanctions premised upon attorney's violation of protective order
• affirming district court’s sanction ordering attorney to pay fees incurred by opposing party in preparing motion for sanctions premised upon attorney’s violation of protective order
• upholding a district court’s determination that a telephone call from a judge’s law clerk to counsel was harmless and warranted no further investigation or sanctions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).