GELPÍ, Circuit Judge.
May a district court dismiss a case for counsel's unexcused failure to appear at the final pretrial conference when this is the first and only instance of non-compliance and the district court did not consider a lesser sanction? Under our precedent, the answer is ordinarily, "No." Yet that is what the district court did...
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