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U.S. v. KLIMAVICIUS

No. 87-2034.

847 F.2d 28 (1988)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Jonas KLIMAVICIUS, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided May 26, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ivars Berzins, P.C., Babylon, N.Y., with whom Daniel G. Lilley, P.A., Portland, Me., was on brief, for appellant.

Alan Held, Office of Special Investigations, Crim. Div., with whom Ronnie L. Edelman, Neal M. Sher, Director, Bruce J. Einhorn, Deputy Director, Washington, D.C., Richard S. Cohen, U.S. Atty., and F. Mark Terison, Asst. U.S. Atty., Portland, Me., were on brief, for appellee.

Before BOWNES, BREYER and TORRUELLA, Circuit Judges.

BOWNES, Circuit Judge.

The issue in this case is whether the district court abused its discretion in revoking the citizenship of a defendant in a denaturalization proceeding by means of a default judgment issued under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 37(b)(2) as a sanction for failure to comply with discovery orders. Defendant-appellant, Jonas Klimavicius, refused to comply with the government's discovery requests on fifth...

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