Tung-Hsiung Wu (Sean Tung-Xiung Wu) v. T.W. Wang, Inc. D/B/A World Journal USA

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• holding that failure to comply with court orders “demonstrates bad faith or fault”
• stating that when a plaintiff “display[s] … a reckless disregard for the effect of his conduct on th[e] proceedings,” the first factor favors dismissal
• noting that counsel’s reliance on a stipulated order to stay, which was never entered, was not motivated by bad faith, willfulness, or fault, even if it was unreasonable or unwarranted
• finding no prejudice to the defendant from the plaintiffs failure to prosecute where the defendant did not oppose the plaintiffs subsequent efforts to reinstate the lawsuit
• noting that “[t]his court has repeatedly ‘reversed district courts for dismissing cases because litigants . . . failed to comply with pretrial orders when the district courts did not put the derelict parties on notice that further noncompliance would result in dismissal’”
• finding no prejudice to the defendant from the plaintiff’s failure to prosecute where the defendant did not oppose the plaintiff’s subsequent efforts to reinstate the lawsuit

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).