Baker v. Harrington

KAYATTA, Circuit Judge.

Attorney David G. Baker appeals an order of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court imposing a sanction on him for twice describing the applicable law in a manner that it deemed to be misleading. Finding that the bankruptcy court did not abuse its discretion in construing Baker’s submissions as sufficiently misleading so as to warrant a sanction, we affirm.

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Baker is a very experienced bankruptcy practitioner who regularly appears before the U.S. Bankruptcy Court. In this case, he represented the Debtor, John E. Hoover, III (“Hoover”), who sought relief under Chapter 11 of the U.S.…