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- Title: Cire V. Cummings
- Author : In the Supreme Court of Texas
- Release Date : January 23, 2004
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 58 KB
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The issue in this case is when, if ever, a trial court may strike a plaintiff's pleadings as a sanction without first testing the effectiveness of lesser sanctions. We conclude that in this case, the trial court did not abuse its discretion by striking the plaintiff's pleadings and imposing death penalty sanctions when the plaintiff violated the trial court's orders by deliberately destroying dispositive evidence sought by the defendant in discovery. Thus, we reverse the court of appeals' judgment and accordingly, render a take-nothing judgment against Cummings.