Legal Opinion
Ocelot Oil Corporation v. Sparrow Industries
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided May 31, 1988No. 85-2883PublishedCited by 596 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SEYMOUR, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs Ocelot Oil Corporation and Oil Resources, Inc. (Ocelot) appeal from a district court decision overruling objections to a magistrate’s order that struck Ocelot’s pleadings as to defendants Bonnie Brown and Larry Brown and imposed attorney’s fees on Ocelot, as Rule 37 sanctions for abuse of the discovery process. We affirm as to the attorney’s fees, but we reverse and remand as to the striking of the pleadings because the district court reviewed that portion of the magistrate's order under the wrong standard.
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