Legal Opinion
Maine Audubon Society v. Emery Purslow
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 6, 1990No. 90-1057PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
Fairly characterizable as a matter of principle, this appeal challenges the district court’s direction that two respected members of the Maine bar jointly pay a small monetary sanction ($250.00). 1 Although we believe that the sanction order approached the margins of the district court’s wide discretion, we cannot say it crept past the edge. We therefore affirm.
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The events leading up to the sanction are chronicled in four successive rescripts of the district court, see Maine Audubon Society v. Purslow, 672 F.Supp. 528 (D.Me.1987) (order dismissing complaint); Maine…
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3Cited by21 opinions
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