Dolores Comstock v. UPS Ground Freight, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that before dismissing a case under Rule 37, “the court must investigate whether a sanction less extreme than dismissal would suffice, unless the party’s failure was deliberate or in bad faith”
• stating it is within the district court’s discretion to grant dismissal as a discovery sanction where “there is ‘(1) an order compelling discovery, (2) a willful violation of the order, and (3) prejudice’” (quoting Bergstrom v. Frascone, 744 F.3d 571, 576 (8th Cir. 2014))
• sanction of default judgment is appropriate only when there is an order compelling discovery, a willful violation of that order, and prejudice to the other party
• dismissal as a discovery sanction is reviewed for abuse of discretion
• standard of review and relevant considerations for dismissal as discovery sanction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

1 case in this archive cites this case.

• United States v. Eleven Million Seventy-One Thousand One Hundred & Eighty-Eight Dollars & Sixty-Four Cents ($11,071,188.64)
  Eighth Circuit· 2016-06-06· cited 17×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Michele E. Shepherd and Larue Graves v. American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.
  D.C. Circuit· 1995-10-06· cited 385×
• Deborah L. Schoffstall v. William Henderson, Agent U.S. Postal Service
  Eighth Circuit· 2000-08-18· cited 217×
• Chrysler Corporation v. John J. Carey Joseph P. Danis Carey & Danis, L.L.C.
  Eighth Circuit· 1999-08-05· cited 111×
• Avionic Company v. General Dynamics Corporation
  Eighth Circuit· 1992-02-21· cited 80×
• Joyce Ann Chuchian Martin v. Daimlerchrysler Corporation
  Eighth Circuit· 2001-06-04· cited 77×
• Sentis Group, Inc. v. Shell Oil Co.
  Eighth Circuit· 2009-03-24· cited 75×
• Weisberg v. Webster
  D.C. Circuit· 1984-12-07· cited 69×
• American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota v. Tarek Ibn Ziyad Academy
  Eighth Circuit· 2011-07-07· cited 55×
• Colleen Givens v. A.H. Robins Co., Inc.
  Eighth Circuit· 1984-12-27· cited 53×
• Sentis Group, Inc. v. Shell Oil Co.
  Eighth Circuit· 2014-08-14· cited 48×
• James Bergstrom v. Sgt. Michelle Frascone
  Eighth Circuit· 2014-03-06· cited 39×