IN RE: PRUDENTIAL INS. CO., 99-5960
It was an abuse of discretion for a court, under its inherent powers, to impose the unique sanction of placing conditions on an attorney-s pro hac vice admissions without affording the attorney the kind of "particularized" notice and opportunity to defend against such a sanction that due process requires.
Appellate Information
- Argued 12/05/2000
- Decided 01/24/2002
- Published 01/24/2002
Judges
- Before: McKEE, ROSENN, and CUDAHY, Circuit Judges.
Court
- United States Third Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- David J. Armstrong (Argued), Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote, P.C., Michael P. Malakoff, Malakoff Doyle & Finberg, P.C., Pittsburgh, PA, Counsel for Appellants., Brian S. Wolfman, Public Citizen Litigation Group, Washington, D.C., Counsel for Amicus-Appellant, Public Citizen, Inc.
- For Appellees:
- Allyn Z. Lite (Argued), Bruce D. Greenberg, Lite DePalma Greenberg & Rivas, LLC, Newark, NJ, Melvyn I. Weiss, Barry A. Weprin, Brad N. Friedman, Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach LLP, Reid L. Ashinoff, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, New York, NY, Michael B. Hyman, Deborah S. Bussert, Ellyn M. Lansing, Much Shelist Freed Denenberg Ament Bell & Rubenstein, P.C., Chicago, IL, Counsel for Appellees.