The record clearly indicates that defendants' failure to comply with a preliminary conference order and two compliance conference orders, the last of which explicitly permitted an order to be entered striking defendants' answer if compliance were not forthcoming, was willful and contumacious. The individual defendant, who is alleged to be the principal of defendant corporations, in effect admits that he ignored the first two orders because he was otherwise preoccupied with...
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