Shapiro v. Florida

How courts have described this case

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• defining “reasonable inquiry” as an investigation and inquiry of any of defendant’s officers, administrators, agents, employees, servants, enlisted or other personnel, relevant documents and regulations
• noting a response to a request for admission that merely states that documents speak for themselves is not acceptable
• “The requirement of ‘reasonable inquiry’ does not generally extend to third parties, absent sworn deposition testimony of such third party.”
• “[T]he purpose of Requests for Admissions is . . . to narrow issues for trial.”
• “[O]bjections that documents . . . ‘speak for themselves . . . are improper.”
• a plaintiff’ s request for admission about the meaning of a document at issue simply asks the defendant to confirm or deny that it had the understanding set forth by plaintiff

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).