Smith v. Southwest Feed Yards

The court today, in the guise of an opinion that ostensibly effects a single litigant in a solitary case, concedes defeat in at least a three decade campaign for timely, complete and accurate pre-trial disclosure of the identity and location of persons with knowledge of relevant facts. In the process, the court retreats from its previous articulations of the high-minded, yet basic, imperative of full pre-trial responses to discovery requests and, simultaneously, condemns the bench of this state to the futility of applying a new, vague and unworkable standard for determining the existence of…