Palinkas v. Bennett

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the trial court did not abuse its discretion when it allowed defendant pediatrician to testify that he invariably followed the same routine when he discharged premature infants throughout decades of practice, during which he had discharged hundreds of such infants
• trial judge’s determination of admissibility should be overruled “only when [that ruling] is clearly wrong”
• evidence of a business habit may be admissible to prove whether an act was performed in accordance with the habit
• doctor’s routine for discharging certain patients was business habit
• stating a business habit can involve a single person

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).