Legal Opinion
Lightspeed Media Corp. v. Smith
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 19, 2016No. Nos. 15-2440 & 15-2682PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Chief Judge.
When last we considered John Steele and Paul Hansmeier’s challenges to contempt sanctions imposed on them, we gave them some friendly advice: stop digging. *503See Lightspeed Media Corp. v. Smith, 761 F.3d 699 (7th Cir.2014) (Lightspeed I). Apparently they did not realize that we meant what we said. Hoping to avoid paying additional sanctions, they dissembled to the district court and engaged in discovery shenanigans. Anthony Smith, a defendant in the underlying litigation, found out what was going on and moved for yet more contempt and discovery sanctions against Steele,…
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