United States Eleventh Circuit

Finding that defendant disobeyed an order to produce documents relating to vehicle allocation and satellite dealerships is affirmed, however the district court violated defendant's due process rights by failing to provide a rational basis for imposing sanctions and striking affirmative defenses of res judicata and issue preculsion.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/13/2006
• Published 04/13/2006

Judges

• PRYOR, Circuit Judge:, Before TJOFLAT and PRYOR, Circuit Judges, and GEORGE, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Terrence William McCarthy, Jere F. White, Jr., Sanford G. Hooper, Lightfoot, Franklin & White, L.L.C., Birmingham, AL, for General Motors Corp., Thomas E. Baddley, Jr., Jeffrey P. Mauro, Baddley & Mauro, L.L.C., Birmingham, AL, for Serra Chevrolet, Inc.