Adams v. USAA Casualty Insurance Co.

SMITH, Circuit Judge.

In this consolidated appeal, the appellants, attorneys for plaintiffs 2 and defendants 3 in a putative class action, appeal from the district court’s orders (1) finding that the appellants violated Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11 and abused the judi cial process when they stipulated to the dismissal of the federal. action, and (2) reprimanding some of the plaintiffs’ attorneys as a sanction for the violation. Specifically, the district court found that the appellants violated Rule 11 when they stipulated to the dismissal of the federal action for the allegedly improper…