ALVARADO v. SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS, INC.

No. 3D08-319.

8 So.3d 388 (2009)

Yalila ALVARADO and Wilfredo Alvarado, Jr., as Natural Guardians and Parents of Wilfredo Alvarado, III, a Minor, Appellants, v. SNOW WHITE AND the SEVEN DWARFS, INC., a/k/a Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs School, Inc., Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

March 4, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Billbrough & Marks and Geoffrey B. Marks, Coral Gables, for appellants.

Daniel J. Woodring, Tallahassee; John S. Derr, Tallahassee, for appellee.

Before WELLS, CORTIÑAS, and ROTHENBERG, JJ.


CORTIÑAS, J.

We reverse the trial court's dismissal with prejudice of appellants' case for failure to comply with certain discovery orders. "Because dismissal is the ultimate sanction in the adversarial system, it should be reserved for those aggravating circumstances in which a lesser sanction would fail to achieve a just result." Kozel v. Ostendorf, 629 So.2d 817, 818 (Fla.1993). To ensure that the sanction of dismissal...

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