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· 1/15/1982

Juan Corchado v. Puerto Rico Marine Management, Inc.

Citations

  • 665 F.2d 410

How courts have described this case

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

  • “We realize that we are visiting the sins of the attorneys upon the client, but this is an unavoidable side effect of the adversary system.”
  • \The rule bestows on courts considerable discretion in their treatment of motions to dismiss in non-jury cases.\
  • dismissed because of persistent failure to respond to discovery
  • “We hope that we have made it clear by now that a district court’s discretion to use the extreme sanction of dismissal for failure of counsel to respond properly to discovery orders or to fail to appear at scheduled hearings will be upheld unless abused.”

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Judges: Campbell, Bownes, Breyer

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