FAHRENZ v. MEADOW FARM PARTNERSHIP

Nos. 87-3608, 87-3609, 87-3613.

850 F.2d 207 (1988)

Frederick D. FAHRENZ; Ronald E. Kuykendall; James M. Minor, Jr.; Stanley E. Preiser, Parties in Interest-Appellees, and Meadow Limited Partnership, Plaintiff, v. The MEADOW FARM PARTNERSHIP; Reuben Freedlander; Eric Freedlander; Eve Freedlander, Defendants-Appellants, and Heritage Savings & Loan Association; Jay W. Weinberg; Theodore W. Potter; Bud Smith; William R. Baldwin, III, Defendants, Association of Trial Lawyers of America; Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, Amici Curiae. Frederick D. FAHRENZ; Ronald E. Kuykendall; James M. Minor, Jr.; Stanley E. Preiser, Parties in Interest-Appellants, and Meadow Limited Partnership, Plaintiff, v. The MEADOW FARM PARTNERSHIP; Reuben Freedlander; Eric Freedlander; Eve Freedlander, Defendants-Appellees, and Heritage Savings & Loan Association; Jay W. Weinberg; Theodore W. Potter; Bud Smith; William R. Baldwin, III, Defendants. MEADOW LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The MEADOW FARM PARTNERSHIP; Reuben Freedlander; Eric Freedlander; Eve Freedlander, Defendants-Appellees, 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 July 1, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George H. Gromel, Jr. (James L. Banks, Jr., Hunton & Williams, Richmond, Va., on brief) for appellants.

Stanley E. Preiser, Charleston, W.Va., James M. Minor, Jr., Richmond, Va., (Ronald E. Kuykendall, Richmond, Va., Frederick D. Fahrenz, Charleston, W.Va., on brief) for appellees.

Eugene I. Pavalone, President, Ass'n of Trial Lawyers of America; Washington, D.C., Robert W. Mann, President, Virginia Trial Lawyers Ass'n; Martinsville, Va., Donald W. Lemons, Lucy H. Allen, Martha D. Hartmann-Harlan, McCarthy & Durrette, P.C., Richmond, Va., on brief, for amicus curiae.

Before WIDENER and CHAPMAN, Circuit Judges, and MICHAEL, United States District Judge for the Western District of Virginia, sitting by designation.


MICHAEL, District Judge:

This is an appeal of the district court's imposition of a $10,000 sanction, pursuant to Rule 11, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, against James Minor, Ronald Kuykendall, Stanley Preiser, and Frederick Fahrenz, lawyers representing Meadow Limited Partnership in this action, 118 FRD 432. Appellants Ruben Freedlander, Eve Freedlander, Eric Freedlander, and their partnership, Meadow Farm Partnership...

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