Legal Opinion
Merrill v. Chicago & Illinois Midland Railway
District Court, C.D. Illinois
Decided August 15, 1990No. 88-3177PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RICHARD MILLS, District Judge:
One thing this Court will not suffer lightly is trial by artifice and ambuscade.
We expect litigants and their counsel to abide by both the letter and the spirit of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and to cooperate fully — within the metes and bounds of our adversarial system — in an effort to uncover the truth and attempt to do justice.
Yet during the course of this litigation we were forced to chastise defense trial counsel on several occasions to play by the rules — for instance, the defense waited until the morning one of its damage experts was to…
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