Paton v. American President Lines, Ltd.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that courts are “reluctant” to read language into rules “that is not there” and “that the drafters did not write”
• observing that Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 36(a) permits requests applying law to fact, but “one party cannot demand that the other party admit the truth of a legal conclusion” (citations omitted)
• “[The RFA] is trying to narrow the range of entities that—factually—administer a particular program in New Mexico; it does not seek the admission of an abstract question of law.”
• “A reasonable inquiry means that a party has to 13 ask their counsel, and if their counsel knows the answer, they need to use that information to admit 14 or deny.”
• in denying a request for admission, a party’s obligation to conduct a reasonably inquiry “means that a party has to ask their counsel, and if their counsel knows the answer, the need to use that information to admit or deny”

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