Valley Engineers Inc. v. Electric Engineering Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that factor numbers one and two favor, and number four cuts against, ease dispositive sanctions
• noting that when 18 considering evidentiary, issue, or terminating 19 sanctions, factors three and five “are decisive”
• stating that “it is not always necessary for the court to impose less serious sanctions first, or to give any explicit warning”
• concluding that dishonest concealment of critical evidence justified dismissal
• observing that the five-factor test “amounts to a way 26 for a district judge to think about what to so, not a series of conditions precedent” to dismissal
• finding that Defendant knew it could be subject to 22 dismissal sanctions after the Court threatened sanctions for anything that would “frustrate the 23 speedy disposition of the case”

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Cited by

26 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Connecticut General Life Insurance Company v. New Images Of Beverly Hills
  Ninth Circuit· 2007-03-30· cited 283×
• Merrick v. Paul Revere Life Insurance
  Ninth Circuit· 2007-08-31· cited 42×
• Omnigen Research v. Yongqiang Wang
  D. Oregon· 2017-05-23· cited 17×
• Lewis v. Ryan
  S.D. California· 2009-10-23· cited 15×
• United States ex rel. Bagley v. TRW, Inc.
  C.D. California· 2001-10-25· cited 12×
• Forsythe v. Brown
  D. Nevada· 2012-02-06· cited 11×
• Securities And Exchange Commission v. Elizabeth L. Coldicutt
  Ninth Circuit· 2001-08-02· cited 9×
• Millsap v. McDonnell Douglas Corp.
  N.D. Oklahoma· 2001-09-05· cited 9×
• United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Lake Shore Asset Management Ltd.
  N.D. Illinois· 2008-04-01· cited 6×
• Raygoza v. City of Fresno
  E.D. California· 2014-03-05· cited 5×
• Sell v. Country Life Insurance Co.
  D. Arizona· 2016-06-01· cited 4×
• Seung Chun Lim v. City Of Long Beach
  Ninth Circuit· 2000-08-23· cited 2×
• Allen Ex Rel. Allen v. Bayer Corp.
  Ninth Circuit· 2006-08-29· cited 2×
• Andrew Barton v. United States District Court For The Central District Of California
  Ninth Circuit· 2005-06-09· cited 1×
• Barton v. United States District Court for the Central District of California
  Ninth Circuit· 2005-06-09· cited 1×
• Unnamed case
  Third Circuit· 1998-10-26
• Unnamed case
  Ninth Circuit· 2000-03-16
• Unnamed case
  Ninth Circuit· 2000-04-20
• Unnamed case
  Ninth Circuit· 2001-08-27
• Lisa Frank v. James A. Green
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2009-01-20

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Link v. Wabash Railroad
  Supreme Court· 1962-06-25· cited 14,398×
• Lavonne BAXTER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Louis SULLIVAN, M.D., Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee
  Ninth Circuit· 1991-01-23· cited 5,410×
• Ann J. Malone v. United States Postal Service, an Agency of the United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1987-11-23· cited 4,024×
• Anheuser-Busch, Inc. v. Natural Beverage Distributors, D/B/A Mendocino Coast Distributing Co. Florence M. Beardslee
  Ninth Circuit· 1995-10-27· cited 306×
• Adriana International Corp. v. Thoeren
  Ninth Circuit· 1990-09-10· cited 278×
• Raymond Simpson v. Lear Astronics Corporation, United States Ex Rel. Raymond Simpson v. Lear Astronics Corporation
  Ninth Circuit· 1996-02-27· cited 249×
• Jacqueline Payne Jacob Payne Randy W. Lowe Ferdinand Samuel v. Exxon Corporation Exxon Company USA Exxon Shipping Company and Veco, Inc.
  Ninth Circuit· 1997-08-06· cited 124×
• Fjelstad v. American Honda Motor Co.
  Ninth Circuit· 1985-06-11· cited 110×
• Halaco Engineering Co. v. Costle
  Ninth Circuit· 1988-04-01· cited 44×
• Joseph L. Alioto v. Cowles Communications, Inc.
  Ninth Circuit· 1980-07-21· cited 30×