Legal Opinion
Metrocorps, Inc. v. The Eastern Massachusetts Junior Drum & Bugle Corps Association
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 24, 1990No. 90-1074PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge.
The district court dismissed plaintiffs’ action for failure to comply with discovery orders. It refused to award defendants attorney’s fees and costs under Fed.R.Civ.P. 37 and denied a motion asking it to consider such an award under Fed.R.Civ.P. 11 and 42 U.S.C. § 1988. Defendants have appealed claiming that they are entitled to costs and attorney’s fees. Plaintiffs have not appealed.
THE PATH TO DISMISSAL
Plaintiffs filed a forty-one page complaint on March 25, 1988, containing 226 paragraphs. Attached to the complaint was an eighteen-page addendum. Jurisdiction…
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