Civil Procedure – Discovery

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U.S. Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit  

Civil

Civil Procedure – Discovery

Where the plaintiff failed to comply with discovery, the district court properly granted summary judgment to the defendant.

“Kallal also complains about the district court’s decisions to suspend discovery until October 2011 and then to set a six-month time limit on discovery, ‘despite the fact that this was a complex product liability case.’ Perhaps he means to say that the court took an iron-fisted approach. But the record reflects a different reality: the district judge gave Kallal multiple opportunities and extensions in his filings and discovery requests. Although the court denied his last request for more discovery, that denial came at the end of a long line of requests the court had granted. Nothing in the court’s rulings on this aspect of the case amounts to reversible error.

Affirmed.

13-1786 Kallal v. CIBA Vision Corp., Inc.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Pallmeyer, J., Wood, J.

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