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- Title: Meek v. Metropolitan Dade County
- Author : Eleventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 26, 1993
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 77 KB
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The defendants and their attorneys appeal sanctions imposed on them for grave and repeated abuses of the discovery process. In the district court, the defendants continually and willfully resisted discovery, even deliberately withholding discoverable information that the judge had ordered them to produce. As a result, the district judge, pursuant to FED.R.CIV.P. 37(b)(2)(C), struck their answers and entered a default judgment against them on the issue of liability. Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1927 and FED.R.CIV.P. 26(g), he ordered the defendants and their attorneys held jointly and severally responsible for the plaintiffs costs and attorneys fees. Finally, pursuant to the courts inherent powers, the district judge fined each defendant $5,000 and each defense attorney of record $500. The district judges factual findings in support of these sanctions are not clearly erroneous. Moreover, we find no abuse of discretion in the sanctions chosen or the process accorded the appellants before sanctions were imposed. We affirm the district judges order imposing sanctions on the defendants and their attorneys.
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