Roberts v. City of Phoenix

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 court must find the party personally at fault and consider lesser sanctions before imposing the sanction of entering a default judgment for discovery violations
• finding that trial court properly considered lesser sanctions by initially refusing to strike the offending party’s pleadings
• “We will affirm a trial court’s imposition of sanctions for discovery violations, including entry of default judgment, unless the record reflects a clear abuse of discretion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).