Legal Opinion
Sassower v. Field
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 13, 1992No. 954, Docket 91-7891PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JON 0. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:
This appeal from a supplemental judgment imposing sanctions upon two unsuccessful plaintiffs for the vexatious conduct of litigation involves the extraordinary remedy of an award of nearly $100,000 assessed against pro se litigants, occasioned by extraordinary conduct. The judgment was entered by the District Court for the Southern District of New York (Gerard L. Goettel, Judge), 138 F.R.D. 369, requiring Doris L. Sassower and her daughter, Elena Ruth Sassower, to pay defendants’ attorney’s fees and expenses of $93,350 at the conclusion of the Sassowers’…
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