Bruce Grant Bonaventure, Custodian and Guardian for Minor Children, Grant Bonaventure, II and Lynne Bonaventure v. C. Victor Butler

Bonaventure filed a suit in federal district court alleging that various defendants had conspired to defraud him in a real estate transaction. The district court dismissed his suit with prejudice because his complaint was incomprehensible and because he had failed to comply with the court’s discovery order. We affirm.

Bonaventure contends that the district court erred in dismissing his suit with prejudice. Among the sanctions available to a district court under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 37(b) for failure to comply with discovery is dismissal of the action with prejudice. Although our…