ORTHO PHARMACEUTICAL CORP. v. SONA DISTRIBUTORS

No. 87-5175.

847 F.2d 1512 (1988)

ORTHO PHARMACEUTICAL CORPORATION and Johnson & Johnson (Hong Kong) Ltd., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. SONA DISTRIBUTORS and Elmcrest Trading, Ltd., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

June 27, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gilbert Lee Sandler, Sandler & Travis, P.A., Miami, Fla., for defendants-appellants.

Benedict P. Kuehne, Bierman, Sonnett, Shohat & Sale, Miami, Fla., William E. Wallace, III, Howrey & Simon, Kevin P. O'Rourke, Dennis J. Scott, Washington, D.C., for Ortho Pharmaceutical, et al.

Before HATCHETT and EDMONDSON, Circuit Judges, and MARKEY, Chief Circuit Judge.


EDMONDSON, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal, defendants-appellants Sona Distributors, Inc. ("Sona") and Elmcrest Trading, Ltd. ("Elmcrest"), along with their attorneys, seek relief from the district court's imposition of pre-trial Rule 11 sanctions against defendants and their attorneys, jointly and severally, payable immediately. Because we hold that the district court did not abuse its discretion in imposing these sanctions, we affirm the district court's order, 117...

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