Peggy Pendell v. City of Peoria, Illinois

How courts have described this case

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• affirming the dismissal of a suit where the district judge purported to grant the defense motion under Rule 37 based on the plaintiff violating the order to appear for her deposition but dismissed the case for failure to prosecute
• affirm- ing dismissal under Rule 37(d) after plaintiff repeatedly failed to appear for her deposition: “a court may dismiss a suit after the plaintiff has willfully refused to comply with discovery orders and the plaintiff has been warned that noncompliance may lead to dismissal”
• affirming dismissal after two failures to appear at depositions
• no right to effective counsel in civil cases

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).