Legal Opinion
Laura Kraemer v. Grant County, Herbert Hottenstein, William Baker, Betty Baker, Appeal of Mark D. Lawton
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 9, 1990No. 88-3519PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Per curiam
Attorney Mark D. Lawton appeals from the district court’s order requiring him to pay $3000 to William and Betty Baker, defendants below and appellees here, as a sanction under Fed.R.Civ.P. 11 for having filed a lawsuit on behalf of his client without first having made reasonable investigation into the facts of the case. We hold that under the circumstances presented here the imposition of sanctions was erroneous and we reverse.
Lawton was contacted in the late summer of 1986 by Laura Kraemer. Kraemer told him that Herbert Hottenstein, the sheriff of Grant County, Wisconsin, had conspired with…
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