Katherine v. Brown's Day Care Center, Inc.

Duncan Kilmartin, a counsel for defendants in this case, appeals the Caledonia Superior Court’s order imposing a $2,000 sanction on him for filing unsealed information from a confidential mediation session with the court. He claims the court did not afford him procedural due process and erred because his professional responsibilities required him to make the disclosure. We reverse and remand for a determination on the issue of Kilmartin’s motivation in making the disclosure.

In September 1997, plaintiffs Katherine and Bradley Lawson, represented by attorney Gareth Caldbeck, filed the…