Pierce v. Heritage Properties, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that dismissal was appropriate without a consideration of prejudice
• affirming the sanction of dismissal, in part, because the trial court had considered less-drastic sanctions but found none would have the same deterrent value
• finding the plaintiff’s willful discovery violation supported the trial judge’s sanction of dismissal
• “Finally, dismissal may be inappropriate when neglect is plainly attributable to an attorney rather than a blameless client . . . .”
• “other sanctions considered by the court would not achieve the deterrent value of the dismissal”
• the opinion uses the term \willful\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).