Legal Opinion
Gill v. Howard University
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided June 12, 2002No. 00-CV-1407PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Per curiam
Before us is an appeal challenging the trial court’s order of June 6, 2000, dismissing the complaint without prejudice and entering a default judgment against the plaintiff-appellant on the defendant’s counterclaim. On March 27, 2002, we remanded the record to the trial court for an additional statement of reasons why the court had dismissed the complaint and entered the default judgment, in light of our decisions recognizing these to be “extreme sanctions” for the failure to appear at a pretrial conference. See Durham v. District of Columbia, 494 A.2d 1346, 1352 (D.C.1985). At the same time,…
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