Donovan v. Mosher Steel Company, Division of Trinity Industries

JOHNSON, Circuit Judge:

This case requires us to review the district court’s dismissal, as a discovery sanction, of a civil contempt complaint filed by the Secretary of Labor against Mosher Steel Company, a Birmingham, Alabama, manufacturer. We hold that the district court abused its discretion in ordering discovery, and therefore we VACATE the discovery sanctions imposed by the district court and REMAND for a decision on the merits of the Secretary’s contempt complaint and Mosher Steel’s motion to quash the inspection warrant. We instruct the district court to dismiss Mosher Steel’s…