Seyfarth Shaw, Stryker Face $275,000 Sanction Over Contract Case

Law firm Seyfarth Shaw and its client, a Stryker Corp. subsidiary, were hit with nearly $275,000 in sanctions over discovery violations after a federal judge said they had engaged in “nasty litigation tactics.”

The sanctions order Wednesday stems from a contract dispute between Stryker-owned medical device manufacturer Howmedica Osteonics Corporation and a former distributor of Stryker products, ORP Surgical LLP.

After a May 2022 trial, US District Court for the District of Colorado Judge R. Brooke Jackson ordered Howmedica to pay over $4 million in damages, over $2 million in attorneys’ fees, and some $70,000 as a sanction for improper ...