Bruce Lee Jorgensen v. Benjamin B. Cassiday, III Salvador Laurel, Bruce Lee Jorgensen v. Benjamin B. Cassiday, III Salvador Laurel

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• holding that a default judgment may be entered as a sanction if the party has demonstrated “willfulness, bad faith, or fault”
• noting that “[t]he district court is given broad 24 discretion in supervising the pretrial phase of litigation”
• setting forth five-factor test of Malone v. U.S. Postal Serv., 833 F.2d 128, 130 3 | (Oth Cir. 1987)
• setting forth standard of review and noting that “[t]he district court is given broad discretion in supervising the pretrial phase of litigation”
• setting forth standard of review and noting that “[t]he district court is given broad discretion in supervising the pretrial phase of litigation” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)
• considering the merits of an argument that the jury disobeyed trial court’s instructions, before rejecting that argument, concluding that “[t]he jury did not disobey the court’s instructions and did not return a verdict that was unreasonable or unfair”

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