Legal Opinion
Langrock Sperry v. Citigroup
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided December 26, 2012No. Docket 11-5085-cvPublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Per curiam
This case requires us to determine whether a district court abuses its discretion by ordering attorneys to pay their adversaries’ legal fees and costs as a sanction for filing opposition papers four days late where the district court does not find that the attorneys acted in bad faith, and does not provide the attorneys notice of the impending sanctions or an opportunity to be heard. We conclude that it does. 1
BACKGROUND
On March 21, 2011, plaintiff Robert E. Wilson III filed a complaint in the district court alleging that various defendants wrongfully denied him participation in the…
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