Ungar Motors v. Abdemoulaie

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that response to interrogatories, although two months late, was filed before court ruled on sanctions motion
• noting that fact that no trial date had been set was mitigating factor
• noting that plaintiff was not solely responsible for “snail-like” pace of litigation
• “Our reversal results from the trial court’s failure to consider lesser sanctions and from the lack of any showing by appel-lee (or anything apparent on the face of the record) which would justify dismissal.”
• “[w]hile a trial court is not required to state its reasons for choosing dismissal or a default judgment rather than some lesser sanction, a court which fails to state any reasons at all runs a serious risk that its decision will not withstand appellate scrutiny”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).