Legal Opinion
Ehrenhaus v. Reynolds
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided May 29, 1992No. 90-1216PublishedCited by 549 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EBEL, Circuit Judge.
In this appeal, we consider the scope of a district court’s discretion to dismiss a complaint with prejudice pursuant to Rule 37(b)(2)(C) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure as a sanction for the intentional violation of a discovery order. The court had ordered the appellant to appear for a scheduled deposition and had warned him that the court would dismiss his complaint if he did not comply. The appellant failed to attend the deposition and subsequently declared bankruptcy. The case was assigned to a different judge, who then dismissed the complaint with prejudice…
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