Sentis Group, Inc. v. Shell Oil Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that litigation in general and discovery in particular is not one-sided, and a party lacks “the unilateral ability to dictate the scope of discovery based on [its] own view of the parties’ respective theories of the case.”
• rejecting argument that one party “possess[es] the unilateral ability to dictate the scope of discovery based on their own view of the parties’ respective theories of the case”
• the parties do not possess the unilateral ability to dictate the scope of discovery based on their own theories of the case
• parties may fully investigate the relevant facts to “gain an understanding of the key persons, relationships, and evidence in a case[.]”
• parties may fully investigate the relevant facts to “gain an understanding of the key persons, relationships, and evidence in a case[.]”
• “discovery is a investigatory tool intended to help litigants gain an understanding of the key persons.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).