Hamlett v. Reynolds

OPINION

Richard Hamlett and Mary Reynolds were married in 1984. In September of 1994, Reynolds filed a complaint for divorce seeking damages from Hamlett in excess of $2,000,000.00. The damages arose from a loan transaction and a stock purchase agreement.

Despite orders from both the discovery commissioner and the district court, as well as the imposition of monetary sanctions, Hamlett consistently refused to comply with Reynolds’ discovery requests. More specifically, in response to Reynolds’ requests for particular indexed documents, Hamlett often produced a mass of seemingly irrelevant and…