United States Ninth Circuit

The bankruptcy court did not abuse its discretion in finding a Chapter 11 filing to be frivolous, and imposing sanctions upon counsel for acting in bad faith in delaying state court litigation of a commercial dispute.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/04/2002
• Decided 07/10/2003
• Published 07/10/2003

Judges

• Before:  REINHARDT, O'SCANNLAIN, and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas W. Dressler, Dressler & La Vina LLP, Los Angeles, CA, argued the cause for the appellants.  Dennis McPhillips was on the briefs.


• For Appellees:
  
• Joseph A. Eisenberg, Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro LLP, Los Angeles, CA, argued the cause for the appellees.  Michael I. Gottfried and Thomas M. Geher, Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro LLP, and Abraham M. Rudy and Julie B. Waldman, Weissmann, Wolff, Bergman, Coleman, Silverman & Holmes LLP, Beverly Hills, CA, were on the briefs.