Legal Opinion
Simmerman v. Corino
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided June 21, 1994No. 93-5080UnknownCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
ROTH, Circuit Judge:
The plaintiffs’ attorney, Mark S. Guralnick, appeals the district court’s imposition of sanctions in the amount of $7,000 pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. II.2 Several months after the district court disposed of the underlying action through a grant of summary judgment on some claims and the dismissal of others, it imposed sanctions on its own initiative. The court based its order upon a finding that the fatal deficiencies of the plaintiffs’ claims “should have [been] revealed to Mr. Guralnick” in the course of a “reasonable investigation” of the law and the…
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