Barton v. Delfgauw

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 8 WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT TACOMA 9 10 NATHEN W. BARTON, CASE NO. 3:21-cv-05610-DGE 11 Plaintiff, ORDER ON SANCTIONS AND 12 v. REFERRAL UNDER LCR 83.3 13 JOE DELFGAUW et al., 14 Defendant. 15 16 I INTRODUCTION 17 This Court previously ordered Counsel Donna Gibson and Defendant Joe Delfgauw, on 18 its own motion, to show cause why they should not be sanctioned under Rule 11, 28 U.S.C. 19 § 1927, or the Court’s inherent authority, for filing a stipulation in which they admitted to 20 purposefully destroying evidence, a statement they now claim…