Legal Opinion
Unanue-Casal v. Unanue-Casal
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 28, 1990No. Nos. 89-2042, 89-2078PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BREYER, Circuit Judge.
The appellants in this case believe that, pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 11, the district court should have required the appellee and his counsel to pay attorney’s fees (and imposed other sanctions) for having frivolously and improperly filed a “petition for removal” in the federal district court in Puer-to Rico, removing to that court a “will contest” case then pending in a New Jersey state court. See 28 U.S.C. § 1441(a) (permitting a “defendant” to remove “any civil action” over which the federal courts would have “original jurisdiction” to the federal court in “the…
2Cases cited20 opinions
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- Colburn v. Upper Darby TownshipCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1988
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3Cited by37 opinions
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- Matthew Lockary v. Paul Kayfetz Victor Amoroso Mary Lowry Diana Lopez Fransworth Frederick B. McClellan Peter Warshall v. Pacific Legal FoundationCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1992
- Richard Silva v. Peter Witschen, City of East Providence, Stephen LinderCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1994
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