Legal Opinion
Schwartz v. Millon Air, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided August 12, 2003No. 02-10875PublishedCited by 81 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDMONDSON, Chief Judge:
Appellants, Newton Schwartz, Sr. and Benton Musslewhite (“Appellants”) appeal the district court’s order imposing sanctions under 28 U.S.C. § 1927 and Fla. Stat. § 57.105. We reverse the district court’s award of sanctions.
BACKGROUND
On 22 October 1996, a cargo plane owned and operated by Millón Air, a Florida corporation, crashed shortly after takeoff from Manta, Ecuador. In addition to killing the crew of the airplane, the crash killed, on the ground, approximately 30 residents of Ecuador living in the neighborhood of the crash site; and the crash injured many others.…
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