Legal Opinion
Wimo Labs LLC v. Polyconcept N.A, Inc.
District Court, E.D. Illinois
Decided March 6, 2019No. 15 C 8422 (Lead case); No. 15 C 8424PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Jeffrey Cole, UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE
INTRODUCTION
"We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true."
Holmes, Law in Science and Science in Law, in Collected Legal Papers (1920)
The purpose of modern discovery is to assist in reaching a truthful result1 by eliminating what has aptly been called "trial by ambush." See U.S. v. Loggins , 486 F.3d 977, 988 (7th Cir. 2007) ; U.S. ex rel. Robson v. Oliver , 470 F.2d 10, 13 (7th Cir. 1972). See also United States v. Procter & Gamble…
2Cases cited24 opinions
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- Caminetti v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1917
- Taylor v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1988
- United States v. Procter & Gamble Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1958
- Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. v. BonjornoSupreme Court of the United States · 1990
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3Cited by5 opinions
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