Wilkins v. Kmart Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that courts should defer rulings on relevance and unfair prejudice “until trial when the factual context is developed”
• stating that courts should generally “defer rulings on ... unfair prejudice objections until trial when the factual context is developed”
• stating, “a court is almost always better situated during the actual trial to assess the value and utility of evidence”
• precluding witnesses from testifying because failure to disclose was not harmless where “[i]n reliance on the plaintiff's decision not to disclose these persons as witnesses, the defendant did not depose them or seek additional discovery about them.”
• “[A] court is almost always better situated during the actual trial to assess the value and utility of evidence.”
• “a court is almost always better situated during the actual trial to assess the value and utility of evidence”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).