MEADOW LTD. PARTNERSHIP v. MEADOW FARM PARTNERSHIP

No. 86-1659.

816 F.2d 970 (1987)

MEADOW LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. The MEADOW FARM PARTNERSHIP; Reuben Freelander; Eric Freelander; Eve Freelander, Defendants-Appellants, and Heritage Savings & Loan Association; Jay W. Weinberg; Theodore W. Potter; Bud Smith; William R. Baldwin III, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 23, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George H. Gromel, Jr. (Howard L. Kelin, Hunton & Williams, on brief) for defendants-appellants.

Stanley E. Preiser (Barbara H. Fleisher, Preiser & Wilson, James M. Minor, Jr., Ronald E. Kuykendall, Minor & Kuykendall, on brief) for plaintiff-appellee.

Before RUSSELL and WIDENER, and CHAPMAN, Circuit Judges.


DONALD RUSSELL, Circuit Judge:

This appeal presents a question recently answered by us in Kirby v. Allegheny Beverage Corp., 811 F.2d 253 (1987): In removed cases sanctions may only be imposed under Rule 11, Fed.R.Civ.P., for actions or proceedings had after removal to federal court and may not be imposed for the filing of such action in the state court or for any proceedings or actions of the parties in that court.

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