Legal Opinion
Malautea v. Suzuki Motor Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided April 9, 1993No. Nos. 92-8029, 92-8175PublishedCited by 141 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FAY, Circuit Judge:
The defendants and their attorneys appeal sanctions imposed on them for grave and repeated abuses of the discovery process. In the district court, the defendants continually and willfully resisted discovery, even deliberately withholding discoverable information that the judge had ordered them to produce. As a result, the district judge, pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 37(b)(2)(C), struck their answers and entered a default judgment against them on the issue of liability. Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1927 and Fed.R.Civ.P. 26(g), he ordered the defendants and their attorneys held…
2Cases cited11 opinions
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- Avirgan v. HullCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1991
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