§ 46a-58
- Citation
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- Parent Document
- Connecticut Judicial Branch v. Gilbert, 343 Conn. 90 (2022)
- Jurisdiction
- Connecticut (state)
- Effective Date
- 2022-04-26
Other Sections in This Document (128)
- Connecticut Judicial Branch v. Gilbert, 343 Conn. 90 (2022)
- Connecticut Judicial Branch v. Gilbert, 343 Conn. 90 (2022)
- Connecticut Judicial Branch v. Gilbert, 343 Conn. 90 (2022)
- Connecticut Judicial Branch v. Gilbert, 343 Conn. 90 (2022)
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- Connecticut Judicial Branch v. Gilbert, 343 Conn. 90 (2022)
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2,476 charsThe trial court appeared to rest its resolution of this
issue on its view that the limitations imposed by the
referee—allowing the complainant to argue for, sub-
stantiate, and recover only garden-variety emotional
distress damages—were not sufficiently stringent as
sanctions for what the court saw as violations of a
discovery order. Neither the facts nor the law supports
that conclusion.
To begin with, although the complainant clearly did
not fully comply with the discovery request for the
production of her medical records, she also did not
actually violate any discovery order found in the record
before the commission. The branch issued a broadly
worded request for medical records. In response, none
was provided. When the complainant submitted a list
of witnesses containing the names of medical care pro-
viders, the branch objected to those witnesses. Although
the dispute was apparently addressed off the record, it
appears from the branch’s briefing before the commis-
sion and from the referee’s statements at the hearing
that the complainant would be allowed, in essence, to
opt either to produce her full medical records or to
decline to do so and to seek only garden-variety emo-
tional distress damages. She chose the latter course.33
The branch has not directed our attention to anything
in the record suggesting that the referee issued an
unconditional order requiring production of the records.
Nevertheless, the referee’s order limiting the com-
plainant to garden-variety emotional distress damages,
although not denominated a sanction by the referee,
could fairly be viewed as a sanction, in that the order
penalizes the complainant’s failure to comply with a
proper discovery demand by limiting her ability to
33
By later presenting hearing testimony relating to her medical treatment,
the complainant did not comply with the evidentiary limitations that accom-
panied her choice to seek only garden-variety emotional distress damages.
See part III C of this opinion.
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