Phoenix, Arizona, partners Taylor Allin and Brian Del Gatto and associate Blake Bracht obtained dismissal of a defamation case against our client, a liquidator in a UK bankruptcy who was appointed to oversee liquidation of the plaintiffs’ assets. Plaintiffs alleged our client made numerous harassing, threatening phone calls and sent text messages to them and their U.S. business partners, forcing the failure of multimillion-dollar business deals. Taylor, Brian and Blake argued the allegations were false and being used to leverage a better settlement of the bankruptcy debts in the United Kingdom. They lost a Motion to Dismiss on jurisdiction early, and after completing discovery and establishing no communications from the United States to the UK could be proven by evidence, the U.S. District Court, District of Arizona ordered an evidentiary hearing on the jurisdiction issue. The plaintiffs made false statements to the court about why they could not attend the evidentiary hearing and had it postponed multiple times. The Wilson Elser team filed a motion for sanctions once evidence of plaintiffs' false representations to the court were definitively established. The court agreed, noting plaintiffs were purposely avoiding attending the evidentiary hearing and unreasonably delaying a judicial decision. Wilson Elser successfully argued that the case should be dismissed with prejudice as lesser sanctions would be inappropriate.