Frederick A. Carter v. Albert Einstein Medical Center

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the fees and costs “may be reimbursed in whole or in part by the imposition of sanctions on the plaintiff’s lawyer personally”
• finding plaintiff not personally responsible even when he knew of his attorney's dereliction
• articulating similar factors for district courts to consider when weighing whether to impose dismissal as a sanction
• reversing denial of plaintiff’s Rule 60(b) motion based on plaintiff’s counsel’s “blatant disregard for explicit [court] orders”
• granting Rule 60(b)(1) relief from a default judgment where counsel misled his client into believing he complied with discovery order
• considering dismissal as discovery sanction under Fed. R. Civ. P. 37

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).