Legal Opinion
Johnnie McNeal v. B.H. Papasan, Superintendent of Education, Tunica County Schools
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 19, 1988No. 87-4872PublishedCited by 126 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KING, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiff appeals the district court’s decision to dismiss, with prejudice, plaintiff’s employment discrimination suit against her former employer. Our review of the record indicates to us that the district court may have imposed the sanction of dismissal solely because of the inconvenience plaintiff caused when she was not ready to proceed to trial on her trial date. While we sympathize with the district court’s frustration over the plaintiff’s lack of preparedness, we cannot say that this reason, when tested by our stringent standards for dismissal, would support the…
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