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· 8/18/1989

Tibbitts v. Wisniewski

Citations

  • 542 N.E.2d 320
  • 27 Mass. App. Ct. 729
  • 1989 Mass. App. LEXIS 509

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that the plaintiff was under the mistaken impression that case law did not require him to respond to the defendant’s request for discovery
  • “time limits on a [b][l] or [b][3] motion may not be extended by the expedient of bringing it under [b][6]”
  • inexcusable unprofessional conduct by party’s attorney causing adverse judgment against him does not qualify as an exceptional circumstance justifying relief under the “extremely narrow and meagre scope” of rule 60[b][6]
  • “Under the mistaken impression that no response to discovery was required until a medical malpractice tribunal had ruled, plaintiffs counsel did not dignify the defendant’s requests for discovery with a reply”
  • “Under the mistaken impression that no response to discovery was required until a medical malpractice tribunal had ruled, plaintiffs counsel did not dignify the defendant’s requests for discoveiy with a reply”
  • “Under the mistaken impression that no response to discovery was required until a medical malpractice tribunal had ruled, plaintiffs counsel did not dignify the defendant’s requests for discovery with a reply”

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Judges: Dreben, Kass, Smith

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