Blair v. TA-Seattle East No. 176

¶1 A trial court has the authority to strike a party’s witnesses as a sanction where there is a showing of intentional or tactical nondisclosure, willful violation of a court order, or unconscionable conduct. A party’s failure to meet specific court ordered discovery deadlines is a presumptively willful violation of the court’s orders. Here, a personal injury plaintiff repeatedly failed to timely disclose possible witnesses and offered no reasonable explanation for failure to do so. We hold that the trial court acted within its discretion in striking some of the plaintiff’s witnesses.…