Martinez v. Collier County Public Schools

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• concluding that the JCC abused his discretion in dismissing petition based on counsel’s failure to appear at a pre-trial conference where counsel showed good cause for his failure to appear
• holding dismissal too severe a sanction even if “good cause” was not shown
• reversing the JCC's order dismissing the claimant's complaint, in part, for failing to make the required finding that the offending behavior was in willful disregard of the JCC's authority
• reversing JCC’s dismissal without prejudice, noting that “the JCC’s order does not contain the required finding that counsel’s failure to appear resulted from a willful disregard of the JCC’s authority”
• reversing JCC’s dismissal based on counsel’s failure to personally appear at pretrial conference, noting “JCC’s order does not contain the required finding that counsel’s failure to appear resulted from a willful disregard of the JCC’s authority”
• reversing order dismissing PFB based upon the failure of the claimant’s attorney to personally appear at a pretrial conference because there was good cause for counsel’s failure to appear and dismissal was too severe of a sanction in any event

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).