McCarty v. VERIZON NEW ENGLAND, INC.

BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.

Attorney James N. Ellis appeals from a sanction order against him that was entered by the district court in the underlying civil suit in which Ellis was the plaintiffs counsel. McCarty v. Verizon New England, Inc., 772 F.Supp.2d 362, 365-66 (D.Mass.2011). The sanction was an award of attorneys’ fees to the defendants — Verizon New England, Inc. and Jeffrey Romano — in the amount of $34,908.12. Id. at 367. The events and course of proceedings are as follows.

On May 23, 2006, Verizon employee Anthony McCarty crashed a Verizon truck into a highway abutment while driving to…