Court Opinion

ID: 9635539
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 13:53:51.692762+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T10:59:37.157025
License: Public Domain

KELLY,
Associate Judge, concurring:
As I understand the record, appellant’s counterclaim was stricken because she deliberately refused to appear and show cause why she should not be held in contempt of court. Although the word “dismissal” was occasionally used in the colloquy between court and counsel,1 appellant could not thereafter prosecute a counterclaim which had been stricken. Since I believe the court’s action in striking the counterclaim was an appropriate sanction to impose, however, I concur in the finding of no abuse of discretion and join in the remainder of the court’s opinion.

. A claim or counterclaim may also be dismissed for failure to “comply with . any order of the court.” Super.Ct.Civ.R. 41(b) and (c).