Staples v. Israel

How courts have described this case

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• granting plaintiffs’ motion to strike defendants’ answer and all but one counterclaim and awarding plaintiffs costs and attorneys’ fees where defendants, through their principal, fabricated evidence and offered false testimony
• striking answer where defendants produced fraudulent records in response to discovery demands
• rejecting argument that sanctions should not be imposed on the defendants who “withdrew the disputed records” given that the defendants did not withdraw the documents on their own, but rather “waited until the falsity of the documents had been detected”
• rejecting argument that sanctions should not be imposed on the defendants who “withdrew the disputed records” given that the defendants did not withdraw the documents on their own; but rather “waited until the falsity of the documents had been detected”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).