Koval v. Painewebber Housing & Healthcare Funding, Inc.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

SHADUR, District Judge.

At the March 22, 1989 status hearing in this action, this Court ruled that a clear violation of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (“Rules”) dealing with discovery— the failure of counsel for Leonard Koval (“Koval”) to comply with the discovery requests from PaineWebber Housing and Healthcare Funding, Inc. (“PaineWebber”) —called for the payment under Rule 37(a)(4)' by Koval’s counsel (with no passing on to the client) of the reasonable expenses, including attorney’s fees, incurred by PaineWebber. As for the measure of those expenses, this…