Saterfield v. California

How courts have described this case

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• holding that conduct such as “stalling and ignoring direct orders of the court . . . must obviously be deterred”
• holding that dismissal with prejudice is proper when a \party's noncompliance represents bad faith and callous disre- gard for the authority of the district court and the Rules\
• concluding that “[t]he finding [of bad faith] is not clearly erroneous, but is substantially supported by the evidence recited above which demonstrates a pattern of indifference and disrespect to the authority of the court”
• concluding that “[t]he finding [of bad faith] is not clearly erroneous, but is substantially supported by the evidence recited above which demonstrates a pattern of indifference and disrespect to the authority of the court”
• holding that “noncompliance” or “haphazard compliance” with discovery orders constitutes bad faith
• noting that the defendants’ “haphazard compliance of three very specific discovery orders” was “stalling and ignoring the direct orders of the court with impunity and . . . such misconduct must obviously be deterred”

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