High Court Denies Petition Over Terminating Sanctions For Discovery Failures

Mealey's (December 17, 2020, 8:36 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In its Dec. 14 order last, the U.S. Supreme Court denied without comment a petition for certiorari by one of several parties that was hit with a default judgment ruling and terminating sanctions for discovery misconduct in a lawsuit over trademark allegations over counterfeit ink cartridges, with the high court declining to consider the petitioner’s arguments that he was improperly lumped in with other defendants who engaged in the discovery failures (Artem Koshkalda v. Seiko Epson Corp., et al., No. 20-483, U.S. Sup., 2020 U.S. LEXIS 6023)....