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· 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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Judges: Consideration, Took

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