William E. Brock, Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor v. Gretna MacHine & Ironworks, Inc., a Corporation, and Martin De Matteo

POLITZ, Circuit Judge:

We are asked to determine, inter alia, whether the district court, 100 F.R.D. 798, abused its discretion by dismissing, as a discovery sanction, the civil contempt complaint of the Secretary of Labor. The Secretary refused to comply with a discovery order entered by the district court and the court dismissed the complaint with prejudice, imposing attorney’s fees and expenses. Finding as a matter of law that the application for the administrative search warrant was inadequate and that the warrant was improvidently issued, we affirm the dismissal and remand for entry of an…