MOTOWN PRODUCTIONS, INC. v. CACOMM, INC.

No. 780, Docket 87-7917.

849 F.2d 781 (1988)

MOTOWN PRODUCTIONS, INC., Plaintiff, v. CACOMM, INC., Defendant, v. MOTOWN RECORD CORPORATION, Motown Productions, Inc. and King World Productions, Inc., Counterclaim Defendants-Appellees, Hedman, Gibson, Costigan & Hoare, P.C., Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided June 20, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Otto G. Obermaier, New York City (Eric D. Bernstein, Obermaier, Morvillo, Abramowitz & Iason, P.C., Thomas M. Gibson, Philip E. Roux, Hedman, Gibson, Costigan & Hoare, P.C., New York City, of counsel), for appellants.

Marc J. Gottridge, New York City (Corbin Silverman & Sanseverino, New York City, of counsel), for counterclaim defendants-appellees.

Before CARDAMONE and PIERCE, Circuit Judges, and WEXLER, District Judge.


PER CURIAM:

Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure ("Rule 11") requires that sanctions be imposed upon an attorney who advocates a position even though it is "patently clear that [the position] has absolutely no chance of success under the existing precedents, and ... no reasonable argument can be advanced to extend, modify or reverse the law as it stands...." Eastway Construction Corp. v. City of New York, 762 F.2d 243

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