No. 08-15803 Non-Argument Calendar. September 25, 2009. Jeffrey A. Norkin, Jeffrey A. Norkin, P.A., Sunrise, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellant. Tracy Ann Lyons, Office of the City Attorney, Hollywood, FL, for City of Hollywood. Tamatha Suzanne Alvarez, Martin, Lister Alvarez, Weston, FL, for Cherie Stetkar, Cherie Stetkar, Francis Hoeflinger, Robert Gianino, Donald Bairerlein. On Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. D.C. Docket No. 07-60253-CVJ-EM. Before BIRCH
Estates of helicopter crash victims that brought action against helicopter manufacturer moved for sanctions for alleged discovery violations. The District Court, King, J., held that sanctions were warranted on grounds that: (1) manufacturer's failure to timely produce accident report of lead investigator following crash was neither inadvertent nor innocent; (2) manufacturer's late delivery of thousands of pages of non-proprietary documents prejudiced plaintiffs; and (3) manufacturer failed to identify