United Coal Companies v. Powell Construction Company and Interstate Equipment Corporation and Bethlehem Steel Corporation

How courts have described this case

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

• the work product doctrine extended beyond materials reflecting an attorney’s mental impressions to encompass materials prepared in anticipation of litigation by a party’s insurer
• “The purpose of Rule 36(a) is to narrow the issues for trial to those which are genuinely contested.”
• “the statement of the fact itself should be in simple and concise terms in order that it can be denied or admitted with an absolute minimum of explanation or qualification.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).