Legal Opinion
Gonzalez-Rivera v. Centro Medico del Turabo, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 19, 2019No. 18-1991PPublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
Scheduling orders are essential tools for modern-day case management, and litigants flout such orders at their peril. This case, in which plaintiff-appellant Aglaed González-Rivera violated just such a scheduling order and suffered the consequences, illustrates the point. Because the court below acted well within the encincture of its discretion in refusing to countenance the violation, we affirm the entry of judgment in favor of the defendants.
The relevant facts and travel of the case lend themselves to succinct summarization. On March 15, 2010, the plaintiff, a citizen…
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