Weese v. Schukman

How courts have described this case

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• holding that allegations that defendant concealed material facts in discovery and at trial, “even if true, cannot properly be characterized as fraud on the court”
• noting that “fraud on the court should embrace only that species of fraud which does or attempts to, subvert the integrity of the court itself, or is a fraud perpetrated by officers of the court”
• upholding the district court’s admission of a physician’s testimony as lay opinion where the testimony was helpful and drew from his general experience as a physician
• “Intent to defraud is an absolute prerequisite to a finding of fraud on the court.... ”
• “Generally speaking, only the most egregious misconduct, such as bribery of a judge or members of a jury, or the fabrication of evidence by a party in which an attorney is implicated will constitute a fraud on the court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).