· 5/17/1971
Maret v. United States
Citations
- 402 U.S. 989
- 91 S. Ct. 1678
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- holding that a party’s “repeated failure” 4 to appear at depositions “compounded by their continuing refusal to comply with 5 court-ordered production of documents constitutes an interference with the rightful 6 decision of the case”
- finding that a district court properly struck a defendant’s answer and 16 entered default as a sanction
- stating that prejudice occurs when a discovery violation “impair[s] the defendant’s ability to go to trial or threaten[s] to interfere with the rightful decision of the case”
- explaining that when a default judgment is entered as a Rule 37(b) sanction, “a party has no right to jury trial under either Fed. R. Civ. P. 55(b)(2
- declining to take judicial notice of a separate 16 lawsuit that “is not relevant to this case”
- declining to 21 take judicial notice of a separate action that was irrelevant to the case
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