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MAINE AUDUBON SOC. v. PURSLOW

No. 90-1057.

907 F.2d 265 (1990)

MAINE AUDUBON SOCIETY, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. Emery PURSLOW, et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided July 6, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Karin R. Tilberg and Harrison L. Richardson, with whom Richardson & Troubh and Elizabeth G. Stouder were on brief, for plaintiffs, appellants.

Before BREYER, Chief Judge, BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge, and SELYA, Circuit Judge.

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

Fairly characterizable as a matter of principle, this appeal challenges the district court's direction that two respected members of the Maine bar jointly pay a small monetary sanction ($250.00).1 Although we believe that the sanction order approached the margins of the district court's wide discretion, we cannot say it crept past the edge. We therefore affirm.

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