Legal Opinion
Dawson v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided October 31, 1995No. 94-10938PublishedCited by 73 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RHESA HAWKINS BARKSDALE, Circuit Judge:
At issue are sanctions imposed by United States District Judge John H. McBryde against Assistant United States Attorneys R. Wayne Hughes and Claude D. Brown, based on a local rule that civil litigants “make a good-faith effort to settle” — in this instance, a pro se Federal Tort Claims Act claim by a federal prisoner for injuries from voluntary recreation, in which Hughes and Brown were counsel for the United States. The district court abused its discretion; we REVERSE.
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In early 1992, Johnnie Dawson, incarcerated at the Fort Worth Federal Correctional…
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