Legal Opinion
Hicks v. Feeney
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided June 22, 1988No. 87-3527PublishedCited by 213 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
HUTCHINSON, Circuit Judge.
This case involves the dismissal of a plaintiff’s action for failure to comply with a district court’s discovery order. The sanction is harsh. Nevertheless, considering appellant’s willful refusal to afford ap-pellee discovery relevant, at the least, to the undecided issue of appropriate relief, the district court did not abuse its discretion. We will therefore affirm.
On November 18, 1982 the Family Court of the State of Delaware found plaintiff Roy Hicks (Hicks) guilty of criminal contempt. The court sentenced Hicks to thirty days in jail, but…
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