Legal Opinion
Doering v. Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided September 14, 1988No. 87-5748PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
A. LEON HIGGINBOTHAM, Jr., Circuit Judge.
Appellant is a lawyer against whom the district court imposed attorney’s fees total-ling approximately $25,000 as sanctions under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11.
We will affirm the district court’s conclusion of a Rule 11 violation, based on its subsidiary finding that the complaint prepared by appellant is legally frivolous. We will also affirm the district court’s calculation of the lodestar amount. We will, however, vacate that aspect of its order imposing a particular monetary sanction without consideration of numerous…
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