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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".07" citation="COMAR 26.20.35.07" title_num="26" subtitle_num="20" chapter_num="35" heading="Failure to Comply with Orders Compelling Discovery.">
  <text>If a party or an officer, director, or other agent of a party fails to obey an order to provide or permit discovery, the hearing officer may make such orders in regard to the failure as are just, including but not limited to the following:</text>
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>An order that the matters sought to be discovered or any other designated facts shall be taken to be established for the purposes of the action in accordance with the claim of the party obtaining the order;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>An order refusing to allow the disobedient party to support or oppose designated claims or defenses, or prohibiting him from introducing designated matters into evidence; or</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>An order striking out pleadings or parts of them, or staying further proceedings until the order is obeyed, or dismissing the action or proceeding or any part thereof, or rendering a judgment by default against the disobedient party.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>