Chrysler Credit Corp. v. J. Truett Payne Co.

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• noting that while a district court should not punish a party for wrongful conduct by his attorney, if the party himself is at fault, then “the impact of the sanction should be lodged” directly against the party
• reviewing a sanction imposed under Rule 16(f) for whether it was supported by the record and within the trial court's discretion
• reviewing a sanction imposed under Rule 16(f) for whether it was supported by the record and within the trial court’s discretion
• “If the fault lies with the attorneys, that is where the impact of sanction should be lodged.”
• “neither contumacious attitude nor chronic failure is a necessary threshold to the imposition of sanctions”
• “If the 23 fault lies with the attorney, that is where the impact of sanction should be 24 lodged. If the fault lies with the clients, that is where the impact of the 25 sanction should be lodged.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).