United States Eleventh Circuit

A district judge erred, both procedurally and on the merits, in sua sponte imposing FRCP 11 sanctions against a party for filing, the judge concluded, unnecessary (and one frivolous) in limine motions on the eve of trial.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/30/2003
• Published 06/03/2003

Judges

• EDENFIELD, District Judge:, Before BIRCH and HULL, Circuit Judges, and EDENFIELD , District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Myron Shapiro, Miami, FL, David M. Rice, Carroll, Burdick & McDonough, LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Defendants-Appellants., James B. Tilghman, Jr., Stewart, Tilghman, Fox & Bianchi, P.A., Miami, FL, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.