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No. 92-1401
RADIOCENTRO, INC., ETC.,
Plaintiff, Appellant,
v.
ALTOS COMPUTER SYSTEMS,
Defendant, Appellee.
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APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO
[Hon. Raymond L. Acosta, U.S. District Judge]
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Before
Selya, Circuit Judge,
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Aldrich, Senior Circuit Judge,
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and Boyle,* District Judge.
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Ciro A. Betancourt
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appellant.
for
Per Curiam.
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27, 1990.
Early
District of
in
compliance.
R. Civ. P.
timeous
34.
fashion,
When
defendant
July 8,
moved to compel
1991,
discovery.
to
requested
It failed to do so.
still
empty-handed, the
defendant
magistrate-judge,
August
in
1, 1991.
the breach.
the plaintiff
22, 1991)
offered
to
make amends
by
motion to compel,
dismissal."
The
The magistrate's
discovery order.
At
interrogatories.
plaintiff's counsel
pretrial
conference.
thereafter,
failed to
The
on
appear at a
defendant
filed
October
answers to
3,
1991,
previously scheduled
another motion
to
The plaintiff
opposed
to
dismissal,
attributing
noncompliance
counsel's
On February
action.
In
his order,
the judge
pointedly noted
plaintiff's
of a "manifest pattern of
concluded
had shown
that plaintiff
found
delay," and
"total disregard"
of the
record here
other
conduct
tarry.
This
The district
betokening
late.
recalcitrance persisted
warning
dismissal.
knocked
plaintiff was
cavalier
The
specific
that
The court's
into
Rather,
procedure.
Its
disregard
further
in the face
delay
timetable
cocked hat.
might
for discovery
On
for
but
orderly
egregiously
of the
well
court's
engender
and trial
this infelicitous
was
record,
dismissal was among the sanctions that the district court, in its
discretion, was entitled to employ.1
v.
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Link
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U.S. 626,
F.2d 535,
633-35 (1962);
537
(1st Cir.
Spiller v.
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1988); Farm
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1987);
this appeal
presents no
substantial
Affirmed.
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question, we