An-Port, Inc. v. MBR Industries, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• there must be a violation of a prior court order before sanctions may be imposed
• party “exposed itself to Rule 37(b) sanctions” when it “chose to ignore and disobey” a “clear, unequivocal and unambiguous discovery order”
• a nonresponsive party “defaulted on its duty to answer” when the time to respond lapsed, so the facts at issue were deemed admitted for summary judgment consideration
• “The requirement of good faith between the parties in a contract ... ■ must guide all contacts between the contracting parties during the existence of the relationship.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).