Linneen v. Cunard Steamship Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that administrative agent suing on behalf of holders of debt was obligated to produce documents and information in possession of holders to the same extent as if the holders had brought the suit
• directing plaintiff JP Morgan to produce discovery in the physical possession of nonparties and authorizing defendants to seek discovery sanctions if JP Morgan failed to do so \within a reasonable time\
• “It is both logically inconsistent and unfair to allow the right to sue to be transferred to assignees . . . free of the obligations that go with litigating a claim.”
• “If the plaintiff’s theory carried the day, the assignor would be able to assign a claim more valuable than it could ever have, because its claim, if pursued by the assignor, would entail certain obligations that, when assigned, would magically disappear.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).