Bridgett Watson Adams, et al. v. 3M Company

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The court did not, however, give Plaintiffs a deadline to file that amendment because Plaintiffs must respond to this order first. While reviewing the parties’ briefs on 3M’s Rule 12(c) motion, the court noticed that Plaintiffs’ opposition (doc. 39) was riddled with misquotes, false quotes, strained case interpretations, and citations that seem to have been outright fabricated. You could call some of the errors ‘ticky-tack’ if you viewed them in isolation. But considering the volume of the errors—and the number of fabrications—the court struggles to overlook any of them. Instead, the court highlights nine errors below. A.

Authorities cited in the passage: Jarrod Johnson v. Water Light & Sinking Fund Comm’n · Gonsalvez v. Celebrity Cruises · Plaintiffs relied on Cook v. Randolph Cty., 573 F.3d 1143, 1150-51 (11th Cir. 2009) to support a Rule 15 amendment entitleme · Plaintiffs cited Payton v. Monsanto, 801 So. 2d 829, 835-36 (Ala. 2001) claiming it supported a discovery rule for ac