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· 1/12/1909

United States v. Behrend

Citations

  • 167 F. 317
  • 1909 U.S. App. LEXIS 4344

How courts have described this case

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

  • “discovery should ordinarily be allowed under the concept of relevancy unless it is clear that the information sought can have no possible bearing upon the subject matter of the action”
  • \discovery should ordinarily be allowed under the concept of relevancy unless it is clear that the information sought can have no possible bearing upon the subject matter of the action\
  • “On the showing ... that the documents sought for production are not within [the defendant’s] custody, control or possession, [the defendant] cannot be compelled to produce them.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Lacombe, Noyes, Ward

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