Giancola v. JohnsonDiversey

This is an appeal from the district court’s dismissal of this product liability case as a sanction for plaintiffs repeated failure to show up at his scheduled depositions and to produce relevant documents requested by the defense, despite warnings and, ultimately, a court order requiring him to do so. Essentially for the reasons stated by the district court in its thorough and well-reasoned 19-page decision, we affirm both the dismissal and the subsequent denial of plaintiffs motion for reconsideration.

DISCUSSION

We previously reserved judgment on the threshold question, flagged by the clerk’s…