Legal Opinion
Lucas v. Duncan
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided July 31, 2009No. 07-5264PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge GARLAND.
GARLAND, Circuit Judge:
This is an appeal from an order imposing sanctions against an attorney under Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. A magistrate judge imposed the sanctions for statements that the attorney made in pleadings he filed on behalf of his client, the plaintiff in an employment discrimination suit. For the reasons stated below, we vacate the sanctions order.
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Attorney John F. Karl, Jr.’s client, Theodore Lucas, was an employee in the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights. In 1998, Lucas applied for a…
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