Rentz v. Dynasty Apparel Industries, Inc.

OPINION

KAREN NELSON MOORE, Circuit Judge.

Paul Warfield and his company, Jemes-co, Inc., (collectively, “the Warfield Defendants”) appeal the district court’s decision awarding them monetary sanctions against Paul R. Leonard and B. Randall Roach, counsel for Richard J. Rentz, the plaintiff in the underlying litigation. In 1999, the district court determined that Leonard and Roach had violated Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and 28 U.S.C. § 1927 by litigating several of Rentz’s claims set forth in an amended complaint that lacked any basis in fact. In 2007, the district court…