Dimon v. Mansy

How courts have described this case

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• cautioning that “court’s authority to issue dismissals as a sanction must be limited by the circumstances and necessity giving rise to its exercise”
• believing that the time has arrived to disassociate the civil practice of West Virginia with the position taken in Link
• finding that because of the harshness of the sanction, a dismissal with prejudice for failure to appear is only appropriate in flagrant situations
• setting forth specific procedures for a circuit court to follow when dismissing a matter under Rule 41(b)
• “we recognize that dismissal based on procedural grounds is a severe sanction which runs counter to the general objective of disposing cases on the merit.”
• “we recognize that dismissal based on procedural grounds is a severe sanction which runs counter to the general objective of disposing cases on the merit.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).