A federal judge in Newark has slashed to $10,000 a discovery sanction of $246,211 imposed by a magistrate judge in a commercial contract case, calling it “extremely unreasonable.”
District Judge Susan Wigenton emphasized in her April 27 ruling that “this was merely a discovery matter,” the legal issues “were neither complex nor novel” and the discovery abuses had not resulted in prejudice to the party seeking the sanctions.
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