Legal Opinion
Green v. Louis Fireison & Associates
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided December 30, 1992No. 91-CV-505PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
REILLY, Senior Judge:
Before us is an appeal from a judgment adopting an order imposing sanctions against appellants, Joseph H. Green and Kenneth Shepherd, in the amount of $2,550.15 because Green’s complaint in an action for damages to recover a contingent fee from his former client, had joined as a codefendant the law firm (Fireison) which had replaced him. 1 In granting Fireison’s motion, contending that the complaint was filed and signed in violation of Rule 11 (Super.Ct.Civ.R. 11), the judge’s order stat ed that it appeared “that this action was not well grounded in fact or law formed…
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