Stewart v. Stewart & O’Kula CA2/4
Defendants and appellants Stewart & O’Kula, A.P.C.; Donald O’Kula; Kathryn O’Kula, a.k.a. Kathryn Baracao (Baracao); and the Johnson Trust (collectively defendants) appeal from a default judgment entered against them as a discovery sanction. They contend that terminating sanctions were improper because they eventually produced all of the documents that were the subject of the motion for sanctions and did not otherwise engage in egregious conduct. The appellate record does not shed any light on the bases for the trial court’s discretionary decision, which a minute order notes the trial court felt “compelled” to render after the hearing on the sanctions motion. We accordingly presume the trial court properly exercised its discretion by ordering terminating sanctions and affirm.
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