United States Third Circuit

Imposition of sanctions for an attorney's deliberate misrepresentation of fact to court chambers was improper, where decision to do so came after court took "judicial notice" of contents of phone conversations that court did not hear and to which it was not a party.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/08/2001
• Decided 04/24/2002
• Published 04/24/2002

Judges

• Before McKEE, RENDELL and STAPLETON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William T. Marshall, Jr.,Zeichner, Ellman & Krause, John J. Gibbons, Kevin McNulty (Argued), Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, Newark, NJ, for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• James A. Scarpone (Argued), Hellring Lindeman Goldstein & Siegal LLP, Newark, NJ, for Appellees.