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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Wood adopts the magistrate judge's recommendation and grants the healthcare provider's and doctor's motion to dismiss the couple's medical malpractice action as a sanction for fabricating evidence. The action arose from injuries the husband allegedly suffered after a doctor left gauze inside his nasal cavity following a septoplasty. The couple's objections to the magistrate judge's findings, including that a cell phone video taken by the husband showing bloody materials in a basin after his doctor's appointment was fabricated, are overruled. The couple "abused the judicial process and committed a fraud upon the court" by staging the video with fake, bloody items and submitting it to the provider and doctor during discovery as a "centerpiece" of their case. The provider and doctor proved the husband did not record the video in a specific exam room.