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· 10/3/1979

Taylor v. Washington Hospital Center

Citations

  • 407 A.2d 585
  • 1979 D.C. App. LEXIS 480

How courts have described this case

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

  • refusal to go to trial after sixteen months of continuances and delays; no reason offered
  • “Designed to promote litigation on the merits, pretrial must not, of course, be used to thwart its very objective”
  • litigants “disappointed by rulings of the court which are adverse to [their] case” are “free to and should proceed to trial as limited by the court’s . . . rulings, and if not successful at trial challenge those rulings on appeal”
  • parties “generally are bound by the pretrial order”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Kern, Harris, Mack

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