Legal Opinion
Snow MacHines Incorporated v. Hedco, Inc. And the Dewey Electronics Corporation. Appeal of Friedman and Kaplan
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided February 9, 1988No. 87-5516PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
GIBBONS, Chief Judge:
In this case we must determine whether the district court acted properly, under Fed.R.Civ.P. 11, when it ordered an attorney to pay a sanction of $1500 to the court for submitting a proposed form of order to a magistrate. The district court concluded that the submission misrepresented the magistrate’s decision, even though the magistrate signed the proposed order. We hold that, at least in the absence of extraordinary circumstances not present here, the submission of a proposed order which is actually signed by one judge cannot be considered…
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3Cited by39 opinions
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