BUSSEY MORRICE III v. Timothy Hewatt, Defendant. (2019)

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

J. Pearl BUSSEY-MORRICE, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Preston Bussey III, Plaintiff - Appellant, v. Patrick KENNEDY, Timothy Herberner, Ivette Gomez, Don Williams, Robert Owens, Matthew Leverich, Gordon Hewatt, City of Rockledge, Florida., et al., Defendants - Appellees, Timothy Hewatt, Defendant.

No. 18-13627

Decided: August 26, 2019

Before ED CARNES, Chief Judge, TJOFLAT, and BRANCH, Circuit Judges.

Wendell Terry Locke, Locke Law, PA, Plantation, FL, Kelsay D. Patterson, Law Office of Kelsay D. Patterson, Tampa, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellant Joshua B. Walker, Joseph R. Flood, Jr., Eric J. Netcher, Dean Ringers Morgan & Lawton, PA, Orlando, FL, for Defendants-Appellees Patrick Kennedy, Timothy Herberner, Ivette Gomez, Don Williams, Robert Owens Joshua B. Walker, Eric J. Netcher, Dean Ringers Morgan & Lawton, PA, Orlando, FL, for Defendants-Appellees Matthew Leverich, Gordon Hewatt, City of Rockledge, Florida

J. Pearl Bussey-Morice ¹ appeals the district court’s various sanctions against her counsel, Kelsay Patterson and Wendell Locke. We reject Bussey-Morice’s arguments that the district judge who sanctioned her counsel was without “jurisdiction” to impose such sanctions or that he should have recused himself. And after exhaustive review of the record—and with the benefit of oral argument and the district court’s thorough, well-reasoned orders—we affirm the district court’s rulings in all respects.

AFFIRMED.

FOOTNOTES

1. Bussey-Morice’s name appears as “Bussey-Morrice” in this appeal’s caption. Yet throughout the record and the briefing, her name is spelled as we spell it here. As best we can tell, the caption’s misspelling stems from a typographical error in Bussey-Morice’s notice of appeal.

PER CURIAM:

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