Strozier v. Smith

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• finding the prejudice palpable where party repeatedly refused to appear for 18 deposition and produce documents
• finding \[t]he severe sanction of default was justified by the defendants' repeated and inexcusable obstruction of every type of discovery attempted by the plaintiffs\
• affirming default judgment against defendants 3 where defendants’ failure to appear at depositions, compounded by “repeated 4 noncompliance with court orders to produce documents,” prejudiced “plaintiffs’ 5 ability to prove the claims and to obtain a decision in the case”
• noting the element of prejudice is “essential” and “sanctions which interfere with the litigants’ claim or defenses violate due process when they are imposed ‘merely for punishment of an infraction that did not threaten to interfere with the rightful decision of the case’”
• explaining 6 that evasion of pretrial discovery is sanctionable conduct

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