United States First Circuit

Insufficient basis existed for the imposition of sanctions against counsel who filed a motion for reassignment, where bad faith was not shown, and where reasonable doubt existed as to the chief judge's authority to exempt a particular class of cases from random lottery and to reassign those cases in some other sequence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/06/2002
• Published 05/06/2002

Judges

• SELYA, Circuit Judge., Before TORRUELLA, SELYA and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Judith Berkan, with whom Berkan/Mendez was on brief, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Stella J. Song, Special Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Guillermo Gil, United States Attorney, Jorge E. Vega-Pacheco, Chief, Criminal Division, and Frank J. Bustamonte, Special Assistant United States Attorney, were on brief, for appellee.