United States First Circuit

The trial court's dismissal of an action with prejudice for the plaintiffs' failure to comply with an order to answer interrogatories is affirmed, where there was neither error nor abuse of discretion in the sanction of dismissal, given that: 1) the district court waited patiently for the overdue discovery, extended the due date on more than one occasion, and twice warned the plaintiffs that it would dismiss the case if they continued to stonewall; and 2) the court set the last deadline in conformity with the plaintiffs' volunteered statement of how long it would take them to comply, and that statement proved to be an empty promise.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/29/2012
• Published 03/29/2012

Judges

• Selya

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Frank D. Inserni Milam, Susana I. Penagaricano-Brown