Legal Opinion
Alfred Lancellotti v. Honorable Thomas F. Fay, Etc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 18, 1990No. 90-1122PublishedCited by 81 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
Appellants seek to persuade us that the district court applied too relaxed a behavioral standard in considering, and rejecting, their motion for sanctions against plaintiff-appellee Alfred Lancellotti and/or his counsel. The point is well taken.
Prior Proceedings
This case arises from the ashes of a decade of matrimonial litigation in the Rhode Island courts which sparked, among other things, two published opinions by the state’s highest tribunal. See Lancellotti v. Lancellotti, 481 A.2d 7 (R.I.1984); Lancellotti v. Lancellotti, 543 A.2d 680 (R.I. 1988). Rather than…
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