Legal Opinion
Bank of California, N.A. v. Arthur Andersen & Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 9, 1983No. Nos. 83-1598 to 83-1600, 83-1605 to 83-1607, 83-1619, 83-1620 and 83-1637PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiffs-appellees have moved to dismiss these appeals and to impose sanctions on the defendants-appellants for their alleged bad faith in appealing. Although, as we shall see, the appeals are not frivolous, they are part of a strategy of seeking to obtain procedural advantages that the defendants are well aware they are not entitled to.
The plaintiffs (several banks) filed suit in federal district court against the defendants (several accounting firms) on March 12, 1980, alleging that the defendants had made misrepresentations in connection with loans the banks had…
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