United States Fourth Circuit

Where an attorney had a good-faith basis for asserting the legal position she propounded, and the district court had an erroneous view of the law, the district court abused its discretion in suspending the attorney for five years as a sanction under Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/31/2001
• Decided 01/30/2002
• Published 01/30/2002

Judges

• Before MICHAEL, MOTZ, and KING, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Ned Clifton Cannon, Jr., Gastonia, North Carolina, for Appellant.  Anderson Butler Scott, Fisher & Phillips, L.L.P., Atlanta, Georgia, for Appellees.   ON BRIEF:  Pamela A. Hunter, Charlotte, North Carolina, for Appellant.