Zilka

MEMORANDUM **

The district court did not abuse its discretion by imposing terminating sanctions with respect to plaintiffs’ fraudulent conveyance claim. Appellants argue that the district court’s original discovery order should be vacated because plaintiffs failed to comply with local “meet and confer” *829 rules. We have previously affirmed the district court’s motion to compel discovery, and various follow-up orders, “in all respects.” Law of the case precludes reconsideration of the validity of the district court’s discovery order. See Leslie Salt Co. v. United States, 55 F.3d 1388, 1392 (9th Cir.1995).

Appellants cannot assert “good faith compliance” with the discovery orders, because they continued to withhold documents that they believed were privileged, even though the district court had rejected their discovery objections. Appellants’ argument that their appeal of the district court’s discovery order justified their defiance of that order is baseless. Interlocutory appeals cannot be taken from discovery orders, see Admiral Ins. Co. v. United States Dist. Ct., 881 F.2d 1486, 1490 (9th Cir.1989), and, absent a stay, a party must comply with an order until reversed by…