Estate of Lewis v. Lewis

How courts have described this case

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

• emphasizing extreme limits on discretion to impose case-dispositive sanctions under civil rules for party’s nonappearance at pretrial conference
• court abused its discretion by failing to consider lesser sanction for party's failure to appear
• “[A]n isolated instance of unpreparedness would not justify the imposition of severe sanctions such as dismissal and default, absent aggravating circumstances or prejudice . . . .”
• no default where party did not apply for an entry of default
• default entered for party's failure to appear in person at pretrial conference

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).