United States Ninth Circuit

An interlocutory appeal from a sanctions order compelling an attorney to pay attorney's fees is dismissed as the court lacked appellate jurisdiction to entertain a prejudgment appeal of an order imposing sanctions on a non-party attorney, no longer representing any party in the underlying case, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. section 1927 and the court's inherent powers.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/07/2006
• Published 06/07/2006

Judges

• HUG, Circuit Judge:, Before: HUG, ALARCÓN and McKEOWN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jack Leavitt, Hayward, CA, for the appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mark E. Olive, Tallahassee, FL, and Tim Schardl, Assistant Federal Defender, Sacramento, CA, for the appellee.