Legal Opinion

Rosensweig v. Bally Total Fitness Corp.

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Decided June 18, 2001No. 99-56992; D.C. No. CV-98-05578-WDKPublished

1Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM *

Mathon & Rosenzweig appeals the district court’s imposition of sanctions upon it in this action where it represented Marilyn Rosenzweig against Bally Total Fitness Corp. We modify the judgment and affirm.(1) After this case was removed to the federal district court, M & R willfully failed to respond to that court’s order to show cause regarding jurisdiction. Instead, it continued with the litigation in the district court until it lost a ruling on a motion to dismiss. See Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6). Then it moved to remand to the state court for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. The…

2Cases cited9 opinions

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