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R.W. INTERN. CORP. v. WELCH FOODS, INC.

No. 91-1058.

937 F.2d 11 (1991)

R.W. INTERNATIONAL CORP. and T. H. Ward de la Cruz, Inc., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. WELCH FOODS, INC. and Magna Trading Corp., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 21, 1991.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied July 29, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jose A. Hernandez Mayoral, with whom Rafael Hernandez Mayoral was on brief, for plaintiffs, appellants.

Ana Matilde Nin, with whom Samuel T. Cespedes, Jaime E. Toro-Monserrate, and McConnell Valdes Kelley Sifre Griggs & Ruiz-Suria were on brief for defendant, appellee Welch Foods, Inc.

Jorge I. Peirats, with whom O'Neill & Borges was on brief, for defendant, appellee Magna Trading Corp.

Before SELYA and CYR, Circuit Judges, and BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge.

Rehearing and Rehearing en banc Denied July 29, 1991.

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

Understandably frustrated by the plaintiffs' coyness in the course of pretrial discovery, the district court invoked Fed.R.Civ.P. 37(b)(2) and dismissed this civil action. R.W. Int'l Corp. v. Welch Foods, Inc., 129 F.R.D. 25 (D.P.R.1990) (RWI I). Finding, as we do, that the plaintiffs, although conducting themselves in a less than exemplary manner, did not violate any...

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