Lewis v. Swenson

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that appellees, including an expert witness, owed a duty to the court, and breach of that duty would not give rise to a cause of action in tort by the adverse party
• applying privilege to preclude claim of negligence arising from opposing counsel’s failure to instruct a witness to limit a testimonial response
• finding the privilege applies in an action against an attorney who failed to 17 prevent a witness from discussing malpractice insurance
• noting “an absolute privilege [for] . . . witnesses to state anything at trial which relates to the matter at issue”
• “The court’s inherent power to manage its affairs necessarily includes authority to impose appropriate sanctions on those appearing before it.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).