McLean Contracting Company v. Waterman Steamship Corporation

How courts have described this case

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

• reviewing a decision that the parties’ pretrial order barred the presentation of a new theory for abuse of discretion
• filing action against owner of barge that allided with stationary object that plaintiff was responsible for repairing
• finding the district court’s decision to exclude certain evidence was a proper exercise of discretion because the proponent failed to include the case theory related to that evidence in the pretrial order despite having notice that the opposing side would be pursuing a related theory
• “Failure to identify a legal issue worthy of trial in the pretrial confer- ence or pretrial order waives the party’s right to have that issue tried.”
• “Failure to identify a legal issue worthy of trial in the pretrial conference or pretrial order waives the party’s right to have the issue tried.”
• “Failure to identify a legal issue worthy of trial in the pretrial conference or pretrial order waives the party’s right to have that issue tried.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).