Mobile Investments, LLC, and the Broadway Group, LLC v. Corporate Pharmacy Services, Inc. (Appeal from Etowah…

Summary

The court affirmed a default judgment entered as a discovery sanction after the defendants repeatedly failed to respond to discovery and failed to produce their corporate representative for deposition despite multiple orders and warnings. It held that the defendants' conduct demonstrated willful disregard sufficient to support the severe sanction and that their former attorney's alleged omissions did not excuse their noncompliance. The court also rejected the defendants' reliance on ordinary default-judgment factors and found no basis to revisit its precedent concerning standing in private-law actions.