Dr. Milton Margoles, M. D. v. Alida Johns and the Journal Company

PELL, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order dismissing a diversity slander action for willful failure to obey the court’s orders that the plaintiff produce documents and from an order denying relief from the judgment of dismissal. The issues on appeal are 1) whether the district court abused its discretion in dismissing the plaintiff’s cause of action for failure to produce documents for discovery when that production was not refused but was only tardy, 2) whether the district court abused its discretion in refusing to hold a hearing in connection with the tardy production of…