Legal Opinion
Balerna v. Gilberti
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided February 7, 2012No. Civil Action No. 09-10075-RGSPublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER ON THE IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS UNDER FED. R. CIV. P. 11 AND THE DISPOSITION OF SURPLUS FUNDS
STEARNS, District Judge.
Background
This case involves unfounded accusations of criminality and unethical conduct leveled by a lawyer against his opposing counsel during the trial of an otherwise mundane dispute over an accounting of the proceeds of a foreclosure sale. The haggling over the issue is chronicled in the court’s November 24, 2010 decision, which followed a three-day non-jury trial. See Balerna v. Gilberti, 2010 WL 4878286 (D.Mass. Nov. 24, 2010). The dispute moved to…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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- Spinner v. NuttMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1994
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3Cited by6 opinions
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