Bartles v. Hinkle

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• discussing trial court’s imposition of $10,000.00 sanction against party who repeatedly failed to comply with trial court’s discovery orders
• “In formulating the appropriate sanction, a court shall be guided by equitable principles.”
• “the question is not whether we would have imposed a more lenient penalty had we been the trial court, but whether the trial court abused its discretion in imposing the sanction.” (citation omitted)
• noting trial court’s credibility determinations “are entitled to special deference”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).