SANTIAGO-DIAZ v. LABORATORIO CLINICO Y DE

No. 05-2543.

456 F.3d 272 (2006)

Lizzette SANTIAGO-DÍAZ, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. LABORATORIO CLÍNICO Y DE REFERENCIA DEL ESTE AND SARA LÓPEZ, M.D., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided August 8, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rudolph C. Campbell Valdez and Julio Gil de Lamadrid on brief for appellant.

Arturo Díaz-Angueira, Roberto Feliberti, and Cancio, Nadal, Rivera & Díaz, P.S.C., on brief for corporate appellee.

Igor J. Dominguez and Igor J. Dominguez Law Offices on brief for individual appellee.

Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, SELYA, Circuit Judge, and SARIS, District Judge.


SELYA, Circuit Judge.

On March 26, 2003, plaintiff-appellant Lizzette Santiago-Díaz brought a diversity suit in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, see 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a), alleging medical malpractice in connection with the performance of a total abdominal hysterectomy. Following more than two years of backing and filling on the plaintiff's part, punctuated by persistent noncompliance with court orders and discovery...

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