Legal Opinion
Perkinson v. Gilbert/Robinson, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided June 19, 1987No. Nos. 86-5048, 86-5248 and 86-5282PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SILBERMAN, Circuit Judge:
This case presents two issues on appeal: whether an award of attorney’s fees and costs as sanctions for a repeated pattern of discovery evasion constituted an abuse of the trial judge’s discretion; and whether under District of Columbia law the trial judge should have instructed the jury that a violation of the D.C. Building Code was negligence per se and precluded the defense of contributory negligence. We affirm the district court as to its sanctions award, but reverse with respect to the jury instructions issue.
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Plaintiff Nellie M. Perkinson, an elderly lady from…
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