Cine Forty-Second Street Theatre Corp. v. Allied Artists Pictures Corp.

U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit · Decided 1979-06-28

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IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Chief Judge. The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure carried the discovery principles of Equity into the nation’s courts of law in the hope of expediting the litigation process and of transforming the sporting trial-by-surprise into a more reasoned search for truth. 1 On their face, the Rules deal harshly with the recusant deponent and the dilatory answeror. Courts have…

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