Partners v. Blumenthal’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
31
cited by 31 later decisions
August 2017
most recently cited
7 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Vidrio-Aleman v. United States · Mims v. Browning Manufacturing · Byrnie v. Town of Cromwell · Kronisch v. United States · Fujitsu Ltd. v. Federal Express Corp.
Most-quoted passages
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“Under Rule 34, control does not require that the party have legal ownership or actual physical possession of the documents at issue; rather, documents are considered to be under a party's control when that party has the right, authority, or practical ability to obtain the documents from a non-party to the action.”) (quotation marks omitted). Hunnicutt may also have had an obligation to request documents from its former employees during the 2003/2004 Search, assuming it had the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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