Legal Opinion
National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People-Special Contribution Fund v. Atkins
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 11, 1990No. 89-2052WMPublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GUNN, District Judge.
Thomas I. Atkins appeals the order of the district court1 denying his motion for sanctions under Fed.R.Civ.P. 11 and 28 U.S.C. § 1927. We affirm.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People — Special Contribution Fund (“SCF”) brought this case against four former SCF attorneys, Thomas I. Atkins, Nathaniel R. Jones, William H. Wells and Teresa Demchak, alleging that they had retained fee awards which ought to have been remitted to SCF. SCF alleged both federal question and diversity jurisdiction in its original three-count2 complaint filed February 20,…
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