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DIEHL v. H.J. HEINZ CO.

No. 89-2165.

901 F.2d 73 (1990)

Myriam DIEHL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. H.J. HEINZ COMPANY and Metromail Corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided April 24, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James P. Costello, Thomas M. O'Connell, Des Plaines, Ill., for Myriam Diehl.

Thomas J. Keevers, Kathleen A. Smith, Richard M. Hittle, Keevers & Hittle, Chicago, Ill., for H.J. Heinz Co.

Jack T. Riley, Jr., Kevin G. Owens, Gregory D. Conforti, Thomas H. Fegan, Johnson, Cusack & Bell, Chicago, Ill., for Metromail Corp.

Before CUMMINGS, POSNER, and RIPPLE, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

The district judge dismissed the complaint, with prejudice, as a sanction for the plaintiff's failure to comply with the defendants' discovery requests. Fed.R.Civ.P. 37(b)(2)(C), (d). We must decide whether, in doing so, she abused the broad discretion that federal trial judges possess to punish dilatory litigation tactics.

The plaintiff, Myriam Diehl, a truck driver, filed this diversity tort suit on October 1, 1988, against H.J. Heinz...

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