Rivera Sanfeliz, Randolfo v. Firstbank Puerto Rico, Inc.

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• requiring the district court to consider lesser sanctions before imposing exclusion of witnesses that was tantamount to dismissal, but not requiring a finding of willfulness or bad faith
• requiring the district court to consider lesser sanctions before imposing exclusion of witnesses that was tantamount to dismissal, but not requiring a finding of willfulness or bad faith
• noting that there is often no direct proof
• noting that there is often no direct proof
• discussing “reasonable inferences” that can be drawn by a court to find secondary meaning from evidence of money spent in advertising, the type of advertising used, long-term usage of the mark, and sales volume
• where exclusion of evidence was tantamount to dismissal of claims, the district court should have considered lesser sanctions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).