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DOERING v. UNION COUNTY BD. OF CHOSEN FREEHOLDERS

No. 87-5748.

857 F.2d 191 (1988)

Christine DOERING v. UNION COUNTY BOARD OF CHOSEN FREEHOLDERS, G. Richard Malgran, Walter Boright, Edward J. Slomkowski, Charlotte De Filippo, Brian Fahey, Robert J. Lapolla, Paul J. O'Keefe, Sandra Flack, Lisa Montana, Joseph Salemme, Marilyn Blacker, Joseph Triarsi, Esq. as Agents, Officers, Employees of the County of Union, New Jersey, and in Their Representative Capacities and Individually. Appeal of L.T. VINCENTI.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided September 14, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L.T. Vincenti, Elizabeth, N.J., pro se.

Ann F. Kiernan (argued), Jamieson, Moore, Peskin & Spicer, Princeton, N.J., for Christine Doering.

Kenneth I. Nowak (argued), Zazzali, Zazzali & Kroll, Newark, N.J., for Sandra Flack.

Before HIGGINBOTHAM, STAPLETON and GREENBERG, Circuit Judges.

OPINION OF THE COURT

A. LEON HIGGINBOTHAM, Jr., Circuit Judge.

Appellant is a lawyer against whom the district court imposed attorney's fees totalling approximately $25,000 as sanctions under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11.

We will affirm the district court's conclusion of a Rule 11 violation, based on its subsidiary finding that the complaint prepared by appellant is legally frivolous. We will also affirm the district court's calculation of...

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