Legal Opinion
Sentis Group, Inc. v. Shell Oil Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 24, 2009No. 07-2308, 07-2573, 07-3162PublishedCited by 75 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MELLOY, Circuit Judge.
The district court dismissed Plaintiffs’ claims with prejudice as a sanction for discovery abuses and other abuses of the judicial process. The district court relied, in part, on Rule 37 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and on a finding that Plaintiffs had willfully and prejudicially violated several discovery orders. The district court also cited its own inherent authority to police the conduct of the parties before the court and identified numerous instances of behavior that it deemed abusive but that were unrelated to the court’s discovery orders. After the…
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