Court Orders Dismissal as Sanction for Egregious Discovery Violations

Finding that plaintiff “acted willfully and in bad faith in repeatedly violating its discovery obligations and [the] Court’s orders”, including failing to timely respond to discovery despite a court order to do so and defying a court order to allow forensic examination of certain hard drives by giving its computers away without first searching them, the court granted defendant’s motion.

Plaintiff sued defendant for damages arising from two shipments of prepared food that "were tainted or possibly tainted with [Listeria]." In the course of discovery, ...

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