Court Opinion

ID: 7528431
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-29 05:06:54.881926+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:23:40.441757
License: Public Domain

PER CURIAM.
Dismissal of plaintiff’s action for failure of his attorney to appear for a call of the calendar is too severe a sanction to visit upon a litigant. For derelictions of this nature, a court is empowered to discipline the offending attorney by contempt or other appropriate punishment. See Catogas v. Sapp, 397 So.2d 1182 (Fla. 3d DCA 1981); Aller v. Editorial Planeta, S.A., 389 So.2d 321 (Fla. 3d DCA 1980).
Reversed.