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123482P.pdf   11/14/2013  St. Louis Produce Market  v.  Clarence Hughes
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  12-3482
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Loken and Benton, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Employment contracts. Defendant failed to perform a condition 
   precedent in his employment contract, and plaintiff had no duty to perform 
   under the agreement; the district court did not err in striking 
   defendant's pleadings and granting plaintiff summary judgment as a 
   sanction for defendant's deliberate and willful discovery abuses.