U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Jul. 25, 2012
Judges have discretion on attorney sanctions
A San Francisco lawyer who protested he was too broke to cough up $350,000 in sanctions for misconduct in a civil rights case got a hand from a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Monday.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
A San Francisco lawyer who protested he was too broke to cough up $350,000 in sanctions for misconduct in a civil rights case got a hand from a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Monday.
For the first time in the circuit, the panel held that it is within a district judge's discretion to reduce the size of a sanction in light of an attorney's inability to pay it.
Voting 3-0, th...
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