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MALAUTEA v. SUZUKI MOTOR CO., LTD.

Nos. 92-8029, 92-8175.

987 F.2d 1536 (1993)

Gayle White MALAUTEA, as guardian of Fati F. Malautea and Gayle White Malautea, individually and as class representative, Thomas Nash, co-guardian of Fati F. Malautea, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. SUZUKI MOTOR COMPANY, LTD., a Japanese Corporation, American Suzuki Motor Corporation, a California Corporation, Defendants-Appellants, Joe C. Freeman, Jr., Michael J. Goldman, Philip Siracuse, Patrick J. Becherer, James Deroche, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

April 9, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joe C. Freeman, Jr., Michael J. Goldman, Freeman & Hawkins, Atlanta, GA, Philip L. Siracuse, James D. DeRoche, Crosby, Heafy, Roach & May, Los Angeles, CA, Patrick J. Becherer, Crosby, Heafy, Roach & May, Oakland, CA, C.B. Rogers, James W. Beverage, Richard H. Sinkfield, Rogers & Hardin, Atlanta, GA, for defendants-appellants.

Kenneth L. Royal, Savannah, GA, Patrick A. Dawson, James E. Butler, Jr., Robert D. Cheeley, Butler, Wooten, Overby & Cheeley, Atlanta, GA, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Francis H. Hare, Jr., Legal Counsel, The Attys. Information Exchange Group, Inc., Birmingham, AL, for amicus — The Attys. Information Exchange Group, Inc.

Before FAY and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges, and RONEY, Senior Circuit Judge.

FAY, Circuit Judge:

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...

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