Legal Opinion
Matthew Burda v. M. Ecker Company
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 25, 1993No. 92-2225PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFEY, Circuit Judge.
This is the second appeal from the district court’s decision awarding fees and costs incurred by defendant M. Ecker Company in defending against a frivolous claim advanced by the plaintiff and his two attorneys, Ruth Stelzman and Kenneth N. Flaxman. In our first decision, we affirmed the district court’s order dismissing plaintiffs action pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6) for failure to state a claim upon which relief could be granted. We remanded the ease to allow the district court to reconsider the imposition of sanctions, which had initially been imposed exclusively…
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