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EASH v. RIGGINS TRUCKING INC.

No. 83-5664.

757 F.2d 557 (1985)

Irvin E. EASH and Yvonne M. Eash, his wife v. RIGGINS TRUCKING INC., a corporation, Riggins Trucking, an unincorporated association, Riggins Trucking, a partnership, Riggins Trucking, a corporation, Riggins Trucking Company, an unincorporated association, Riggins Trucking Company, a partnership, Riggins Trucking Company, a corporation, Clifford Riggins, an individual, and Alice Ann Riggins, an individual. Appeal of RIGGINS TRUCKING COMPANY, a corporation, Clifford Riggins, an individual, Alice Ann Riggins, an individual, and William R. Tighe, Attorney for the defendants above named.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided March 15, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William R. Tighe, Edward A. Schenck, Tighe, Evan & Ehrman, Pittsburgh, Pa., for appellants.

Robert J. Bartow, Philadelphia, Pa., amicus curiae.

Before ALDISERT, Chief Judge, and SEITZ, ADAMS, GIBBONS, HUNTER, WEIS, GARTH, HIGGINBOTHAM, SLOVITER and BECKER, Circuit Judges.

Submitted In Banc November 13, 1984.

OPINION OF THE COURT

ADAMS, Circuit Judge.

This appeal presents an issue important to judicial administration, namely, whether a district court may order an attorney to pay to the government the cost of impanelling a jury for one day as a sanction for the attorney's abuse of the judicial process.

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The underlying action in this case was a personal injury suit brought in a Pennsylvania state court...

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