United States v. Hurwitz

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• finding “employing a strategy of delay” as a reason that sanctions were warranted under inherent powers
• noting plaintiffs were prejudiced because, among other things, they “had to waste time and money” to identify and review previously undisclosed materials
• ordering sanctions where party “could not engage in meaningful dialogue to reduce the scope of the documents requested without knowing the total number of documents that existed”
• suppressing exhibits to a summary judgment motion which the defendants did not previously produce
• finding bad faith where documents “would not have seen the light of day had the Court not taken the extraordinary step of convening an Integrity Hearing to look into litigation abuses[.]”
• finding efforts at collecting documents for production was inadequate when, in part, the defendant left it to company employees “to search and turn over whatever documents they thought were responsive, without verifying that the searches were sufficient”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).