USTrust Co. v. Kennedy

How courts have described this case

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• “When the party offended by the rules violation is prejudiced, it is error not to reject the tardily filed affidavit”
• “[Wjhen the party offended by the rules violation is prejudiced, it is error not to reject the tardily filed affidavit.”
• error for judge to receive supplementary affidavit with new factual information, where opposing counsel was absent due to illness
• trial judges \have discretion to forgive a failure to comply with a rule if the failure does not affect the opposing party's opportunity to develop and prepare a response\
• although procedural rules are not mere guidelines, judge may \forgive a failure to comply with a rule if the 6 failure does not affect the opposing party's opportunity to develop and prepare a response\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).