Knochel v. City of Lincoln

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting “technical” interpretation of Rule 35(b) in favor of flexible approach designed “to facilitate medical report exchange”
• “Having determined that there are methods other than Rule 35(b)(1) which may be used to facilitate an exchange of medical reports, we now consider whether Federal Rule 16 is one of these alternative approaches under the circumstances of this case.”
• “The directive of the Federal Rules to eliminate surprise from litigation demands that we construe them reasonably to facilitate this goal and maximize pre-trial exchange of materials.”
• district court had power to compel full disclosure by exchange of medical reports

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).