· 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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