2001 Pa. Super. 93 - Bindschusz v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
24 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Delaware v. New York · Kuisis v. Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corp. · 336 Pa. Super. 22 - Dambacher by Dambacher v. Mallis · Kemmerer v. Commonwealth, Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing · Wilson v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board
Most-quoted passages
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“[i]n the area of medicine, specialties sometimes overlap and a practitioner may be knowledgeable in more than one field. Different doctors will have different qualifications, some doctors being more qualified than others to testify about certain medical practices.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““Every need to provide information must be balanced against the need to withhold it. The need to know is but the converse of the need to keep secret. The only time there will be substantial need to know about surveillance pictures will be in those instances where there would be a major discrepancy between the testimony the plaintiff will give and that which the films would seem to portray. By the same token this would be the only instance where there is a substantial need to withhold that information from plaintiff’s counsel. If the discrepancy would be the result of the plaintiff’s untruthfulness, the substantial need for his counsel to know of the variance can hardly justify making the information available to him. On the other hand, if the discrepancy would result from misleading photography, the necessary background information should be made available to the plaintiff’s attorney so the fraud can be exposed. It goes without saying that the means to impeach should not be the exclusive property of the defense. Any rule to be formulated, therefore, must balance the conflicting interests of the plaintiff against the conflicting interests of the defendant and protect both insofar as it is possible to do so. In addition, the objectives of the discovery rules must be kept in mind so that a just and speedy determination of cases can be obtained. “I conclude these purposes can best be achieved by requiring the defense to disclose the existence of surveillance films or be barred fr”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gross v. Laver
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