Tower Ventures, Inc. v. City of Westfield

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• holding that, absent “excusatory circumstances,” a litigant’s failure to adhere to such a deadline “warrants an inference of deliberate manipulation”
• concluding that the plaintiff's \serial violations\ of the district court's scheduling orders constituted extreme misconduct that warranted dismissal
• explaining that “disobedience of court orders, in and of itself, constitutes extreme misconduct (and, thus, warrants dismissal)”
• stating that “the court’s efforts at stewardship are undermined where, as here, a party cavalierly flouts the court’s scheduling orders”
• holding that dismissal with prejudice was warranted as a sanction for the plaintiff’s violation of the court’s scheduling orders, even if the defendants were not prejudiced by noncompliance, because the plaintiff repeatedly missed court-imposed deadlines without sufficient explanation
• noting that “[s]cheduling orders are essential tools ... and a party’s disregard of such orders robs them of their utility”

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