Landrum v. CHIPPENHAM AND JOHNSTON-WILLIS

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a trial court abuses its discretion “by giving significant weight to an irrelevant or improper factor”
• enumerating options available to the trial court for failing “to obey an order to provide or permit discovery” (quoting Rule 4:12(b)(2))
• “Nothing . . . demands that a trial court first determine whether a party’s failure to obey an order has caused another party to suffer prejudice before it may impose a sanction.”
• embracing the Fourth Circuit’s definition of abuse of discretion
• embracing the Fourth Circuit’s definition of abuse of discretion
• analyzing abuse of discretion standard

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).