United States Ninth Circuit

A court may impose sanctions under its inherent power and 28 USC 1927 when counsel for prison improperly acquired and used privileged and confidential litigation information from prison inmate litigants.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/14/2001
• Decided 07/10/2001
• Published 07/10/2001

Judges

• McKEOWN, Circuit Judge:, Before:  M. Margaret McKeown, Kim McLane Wardlaw, and Gould, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Timothy D. Wilson, Office of Attorney General, State of Idaho, Boise, Idaho for the defendants-appellants., Stephen L. Pevar (argued), American Civil Liberties Union, Denver, Colorado;  Margaret Winter, Donna H. Lee, and Eric Balaban, National Prison Project of the ACLU Foundation Inc., Washington, D.C.;   Howard Belodoff, Boise, Idaho, for the plaintiffs-appellees.