Sherwood & Roberts, Inc. v. Riplinger

PREFACE

When it befell my lot to write the Court’s unanimous opinion in Sierra Life Insurance Co. v. Magic Valley Newspapers, Inc., 101 Idaho 795, 623 P.2d 103 (1980), I labored under the premise that the Court was firmly of the belief that entry of a default judgment as a punishment for failure to comply with a direct order of the trial court compelling revelation of sources was improper. Now, two years later, upon observing the Court’s gross misapplication of its own rules, with little regard for the underlying facts, and no regard for Sierra Life, I am brought to wonder how I would have…