Crossman v. Raytheon Long Term Disability Plan

How courts have described this case

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• finding that the district court’s failure to consider the adequacy of lesser sanctions contributed to a finding of abuse of discretion
• reversing dismissal that was based exclusively upon a single instance in which counsel inadvertently failed to appear at an initial scheduling conference
• “A single instance of prohibited conduct cannot be a basis for [a severe sanction] if the conduct was not particularly egregious or extreme.”

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