United States First Circuit

As a result of discovery misconduct, a magistrate judge properly imposed monetary sanctions on defendants' lawyer by requiring him to personally compensate the opposing parties for attorney's fees incurred in opposing a protective order that he obtained.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/09/2005
• Published 09/09/2005

Judges

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

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• W.E. Whittington IV, for appellant/cross-appellee., Kelly E. Dowd, with whom Upton & Hatfield, LLP, was on brief, for appellees/cross-appellants.