Prescott v. Leaf River Forest Products

How courts have described this case

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• noting Rule 56(f) is especially designed to protect a party who “claims the necessary information rests within the possession of the party seeking summary judgment”
• requiring “the party invoking Rule 56(f) . . . [to] show what steps have been taken to obtain access to the information allegedly within the exclusive possession of the other party”
• “This Court has held that ‘[p]unitive damages are not recoverable absent an award of actual damages’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).