United States Fifth Circuit

The dismissal of Plaintiff's action as a sanction is affirmed, where Plaintiff sent threatening e-mails to opposing counsel and failed to appear at multiple show cause hearings.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/17/2009
• Published 03/17/2009

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before HIGGINBOTHAM, BARKSDALE and ELROD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John J. Petito, North Woodmere, NY, pro se., Richard A. Smith and Jeffrey Mark Tillotson, Lynn, Tillotson, Pinker & Cox, LLP, Dallas, TX, for Eric A. Brewster, Benjamin Benedum, Charles Spradlin, Metghalchi Massoud, Dorothea Westbrook Krempein, Paul J. Willingham, Jeffrey M. Tillotson, Richard A. Smith, Flora Berry, Richard Staats and Energytec Inc., Timothy A. Duffy, Burleson, Pate & Gibson, L.L.P., Dallas, TX, for Don L. Lambert., William D. Cobb, Jr. and Carrie J. Phaneuf, Cobb Martinez Woodward PLLC, Dallas, TX, for Gene Ross Besen., Gary C. Crapster, Strasburger & Price, Dallas, TX, for Margaret Niver McGann, Erik A. Christiansen, Mark Lehman and Parsons Behle & Latimer.