In a ruling that could prove instructive as to where courts should draw the line when it comes to discovery violations, the Pennsylvania Superior Court upheld the dismissal of a motor vehicle accident case as a sanction after the plaintiff repeatedly failed to appear for a deposition and sent incomplete and untimely responses to discovery requests.

In a Feb. 18 memorandum decision in Coleman v. Mahmoud, a three-judge panel of the appeals court ruled unanimously to uphold a Montgomery County trial judge’s orders granting defendant Hany Mahmoud’s motions for sanctions and tossing out the lawsuit.

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