KANAREK v. HATCH

No. 86-2578.

827 F.2d 1389 (1987)

Jules KANAREK and Valley House, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Gary HATCH and Barbara Hatch, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided September 17, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur K. Trask, Jr., Lihue, Hawaii, for the non-party defendants-appellants.

Dennis M. Lombardi, Honolulu, Hawaii, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Harold Bronstein, Honolulu, Hawaii, for Arthur K. Trask.

Before HUG, NELSON and NOONAN, Circuit Judges.


HUG, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from an order compelling Trask, the Hatches' attorney, to pay attorneys' fees and costs to plaintiffs ("Kanarek") under 28 U.S.C. § 1927 (1982). Trask was sanctioned for filing a motion for summary judgment, which the district court found contained substantially the same arguments as an earlier motion to dismiss that had been denied.

Trask raises the following issues: (1) whether the district court's factual and legal...

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