Legal Opinion
Thornton-Trump v. United States
United States Court of Claims
Decided April 23, 1987No. 699-84CPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION ON MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION
WIESE, Judge.
In an opinion dated April 6, 1987, this court imposed sanctions under RUSCC 26(g) upon plaintiff and his counsel for failure to conduct a reasonable inquiry into the accuracy of answers to interrogatories that later proved erroneous. Thornton-Trump v. United States, 12 Cl.Ct. 127 (1987). Specifically, the court ordered plaintiff and his counsel to pay attorney’s fees and other costs associated with useless discovery that was undertaken by two third-party defendants as a result of plaintiff’s erroneous answers. In this motion, plaintiff asks…
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