Ninth Cir. — Judge A. James Craner: Hearing & argument time

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Selected “Fraud on the Court” Cases .................................................. 226 -- 7 of 242 -- 1 CHAPTER ONE DISCOVERY STANDARD AND EXPECTATIONS Full and fair discovery is essential to the truth-finding function of our justice system, and parties and non-parties alike must comply not only with the technical provisions of the discovery rules, but also with the purpose and spirit of those rules.1 All of the discovery rules are to be “construed to secure the just, speedy, and inexpensive determination of every action.”2 Relevant facts should be the determining factor rather than gamesmanship, surprise or superior trial tactics.3 And courts neither countenance nor tolerate actions that are not forthright and which merely delay and obfuscate the discovery process.4 As explained in the opinions attached in Appendix 1-1 and Appendix 1-2, boilerplate approaches are inconsistent with t

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9th Circuit — Division 44 procedures (Judge Luis F. Calderon)

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Reviewer note: Sourced from the judge's own profile page, which was confirmed to name this judge before extraction. Text layer cleaned 2026-09-08 (Phase 3a): page markers removed; wording untouched. Text recomposed 2026-09-08 (Phase 3c): text-layer artifacts corrected (escape leaks, dropped spaces, single-token OCR mis-reads); wording unchanged. Text layer cleaned 2026-09-08 (Phase 3f): page headers/footers, ligatures and letter-spaced headings normalised; wording untouched. Text layer cleaned 2026-09-08 (Phase 3g): 1 kerning-split word rejoined; wording untouched. Verbatim from the procedures document linked on Judge A. James Craner's own profile page, harvested 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14] Confidence set to medium 2026-09-17 (fix program 2026-09-17, Phase 5 - audit L6): the registered source URL (https://ninthcircuit.org/sites/default/files/2012-03%20-%20Order%20Establishing%20Circuit%20Civil%20Court%20Guidelines.pdf) answers HTTP 404 on 2026-09-17 to a verification client and to a browser-class client, so no receipt could be taken and the text cannot be re-verified against the court's current publication; an open data_gap task asks for the successor document. Not archived on a restructure alone. [Corrected 2026-09-26: 1 bulleted sentence had been cut at a semicolon -- a list stem or item published without the rest of its sentence. 1 was removed because the rest of the sentence could not be published whole from the rule's own source (a list item or recital, a page chunk, or a source that is no longer reachable).]