Gee Gee Nick v. Morgan's Foods, Inc., Doing Business as Kentucky Fried Chicken Morgan's Foods of Missouri, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• calling it “a well-established principle in this Circuit that a party may be held responsible for the actions of its counsel”
• affirming monetary sanction when, among other things, defendant failed to provide a court-ordered pre-mediation memorandum
• stating “[d]istrict courts have explicit authority to require pretrial conferences” and “Rule 16(f) expressly permits a judge to impose any other sanction the judge deems appropriate”
• stating “[d]istrict courts have explicit authority to require pretrial conferences” and “Rule 16(f) expressly permits a judge to impose any other sanction the judge deems appropriate”
• “It is a well-established principle in [the Eighth Circuit] that a party may be held responsible for the actions of its counsel.”
• “The Court’s authority to enforce its [ADR] orders by imposing sanctions is 3 founded upon the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and a district court’s inherent authority to manage the progress of litigation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).