Topic: relevance is construed broadly at the discovery stage. · Go Syfert
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4 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 26 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Heilman v. Waldron.

#Case FlagCanonical passage Citers
1 Heilman v. Waldron Anchor
mnd · 2012
green “relevance is construed broadly at the discovery stage.” 13
2 Dale Stroud v. Southwestern Energy Company
ca8 · 2017
green “has very wide discretion in handling pretrial discovery.” 5
3 Dale Stroud v. Southwestern Energy Company
ca8 · 2017
green “very wide discretion in handling pretrial discovery.” 5
4 Heilman v. Waldron
mnd · 2012
green “the importance of the issues at stake in the action, the amount in controversy, the parties' relative access to relevant information, the parties' resources, the importance of the discovery in resolving the issues, and whether the burden or expense of the proposed discovery outw…” 3

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