Midwest Motor Sports v. Arctic Cat Sales, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that “an attorney is responsible for the misconduct of [the attorney’s] nonlawyer employee or associate if the lawyer orders or ratifies the conduct”
• “[L]awyers cannot escape responsibility for the wrongdoing they supervise by asserting that it was their agents, not themselves, who committed the wrong.”
• “[L]awyers cannot escape responsibility for the wrongdoing they supervise by asserting that it was their agents, not themselves, who committed the wrong.”
• discussions with the salesman “were intended to elicit admissions to be used against [the dealer] at trial”
• affirming evidentiary sanctions for, among other things, surreptitious audio recordings
• misconduct by retained private investigator imputed to supervising attorneys

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).