United States Second Circuit

On an order to show cause why an attorney should not be separately sanctioned for his self-proclaimed lead role in drafting a frivolous and vexatious motion to disqualify a Second Circuit panel from considering his client's petition for panel rehearing of a case alleging that the defendants, former senior government officials, caused the September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States: 1) sanctions are imposed on the attorney pursuant to 28 USC section 1927, Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 38, and the inherent power of the court; and 2) sanctions imposed on local co-counsel are vacated, based on his colleague's insistence that co-counsel served a peripheral and subordinate role in the appeal.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/02/2012
• Published 02/02/2012

Judges

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William W. Veale, Alicia M. Simmons