Legal Opinion
Matthew Lockary v. Paul Kayfetz Victor Amoroso Mary Lowry Diana Lopez Fransworth Frederick B. McClellan Peter Warshall v. Pacific Legal Foundation
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 9, 1992No. 91-15384PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:
Pacific Legal Foundation (“PLF”) appeals sanctions imposed on it by the district court for its conduct while “representing” owners of undeveloped land in Bolinas, California in their suit against the Bolinas Community Public Utility District. PLF argues that the court erred in imposing sanctions against it rather than against the individual attorneys who signed the offending pleadings and other papers, that the sanctions violated its and “its clients’ ” First Amendment rights, that sanctions were imposed for conduct that was not sanctionable, and that the court erred…
2Cases cited31 opinions
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