United States Fifth Circuit

Summary judgment for a hospital and affiliated individuals on a doctor's 42 U.S.C. section 1981 claim for racial discrimination impairing his ability to make or enforce contracts, and imposition of sanctions against his attorney, are affirmed where: 1) plaintiff failed to show a material fact issue concerning claimed racial discrimination; and 2) the district court did not abuse its discretion in imposing, sua sponte, public-reprimand sanctions against plaintiff's attorney for a misrepresentation in his brief.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/31/2007
• Published 02/01/2007

Judges

• RHESA HAWKINS BARKSDALE, Circuit Judge:, Before BARKSDALE, DeMOSS and PRADO, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William L. Fouche, Jr. (argued), Dallas, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellant., Danny S. Ashby (argued), Robert H. Mow, Jr., Heidi Elizabeth Frahm, Hughes & Luce, Dallas, TX, Kenneth Winston Starr, Kirkland & Ellis, Los Angeles, CA, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Stephen F. Fink (argued), Bryan Patrick Neal, Anthony J. Campiti, Thompson & Knight, Dallas, TX, for Defendants-Appellees.