Courtney T. Doyle v. Edward Murray Toni v. Bair J.D. Netherland T.C. Bullock, Jr.

PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from a district court decision dismissing the 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim of Courtney Doyle for failure to prosecute a claim. The court dismissed the case as a sanction resulting from the failure of Doyle’s attorney, Sa’ad El-Amin, to attend a pre-trial conference. The court’s memorandum opinion indicated that the dismissal was based significantly on El-Amin’s misbehavior in another unrelated action before the same court. Because we believe that the sanction of dismissal was too drastic in the light of the facts of this particular case, we vacate the…