Legal Opinion
Keller v. Sierra-Cedar, LLC
District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania
Decided December 5, 2023No. 4:22-cv-00013Unknown
1Opinion
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA EDWARD C. KELLER, No. 4:22-CV-00013 Plaintiff, (Chief Judge Brann) v. SIERRA-CEDAR, LLC, Defendant. MEMORANDUM OPINION DECEMBER 5, 2023 Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11 provide a vehicle for deterring abuses of the legal system: imposing sanctions. But sanctions are serious business. Receiving sanctions signals a severe lack of professionalism and inflicts lasting damage to a lawyer’s credibility. So while moving for sanctions is a necessary tool to prevent injustice, such motions are not to be used as a “hardball”…
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