Founding Church of Scientology of Washington, D.C., Inc. v. William H. Webster, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States

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• concluding that it is a question of fact as to whether a particular employee may be considered a managing agent of a corporation
• stating that a district court may dismiss a case under 37(b)(2)(C) “even where a less drastic sanction may have been entertained”
• noting that the court has found “little trouble in finding the requisite bad faith or fault” where a party fails to appear for a deposition “without an attempt at explanation”
• conviction must fall when the prosecution, “although not soliciting false evidence, allows it to go uncorrected when it appears”
• “Courts have accorded managing agent status to individuals who no longer exercised authority over the actions in question (and even to individuals who no longer held any position of authority in a corporation
• “The abuse-of-discretion standard calls on the appellate department, in a spirit of humility occasioned by not having participated in what has gone before, not just to scrutinize the conclusion but to examine with care and respect the process that led up to it.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).