Copeland v. Tom's Foods, Inc.

ORDER

Thomas Ducey and his defunct law firm, Ducey & Associates, appeal from an order imposing sanctions for filing a complaint duplicating litigation that an Illinois court *593already had referred to arbitration. We affirm the judgment.

The underlying events began nearly two decades ago and arose out of Ducey’s representation of Mac Copeland, a snack-food wholesaler in St. Clair County, Illinois. With Ducey as his attorney, Copeland filed suit in state court in 1993, claiming that Tom’s Foods, a Georgia manufacturer of snack foods, had authorized two other defendants to distribute the company’s…