Clark v. Lake City Police Dept.

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding the granting of default constituted an abuse of discretion absent evidence of a willful failure to comply with discovery order or extensive prejudice to the opposition
• “Because of the severity of the sanction, orders striking pleadings should contain specific findings of a willful failure or deliberate refusal to comply with discovery.”
• “[O]rders striking pleadings should contain specific findings of a willful failure or deliberate refusal to comply with discovery.”
• applying Tubero to an order striking pleadings

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).