Albert Flaksa v. Little River Marine Construction Co., Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a district court may enter a default judgment sua sponte against a party under proper circumstances
• explaining that a dismissal for failure to prosecute or comply with court orders may be exercised sua sponte and is reviewed for abuse of discretion
• “Dismissal of an action with prejudice and entry of judgment by default are drastic remedies which should be used only in extreme situations, as the court has a wide range of lesser sanctions.”
• dismissal under Rule 41(b) warranted only in “extreme circumstances”
• dismissal under Rule 41(b) warranted only in \extreme circumstances\
• dismissal for attorney’s repeated unpreparedness and dilatory conduct

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).