JONES v. PITTSBURGH NAT. CORP.

No. 89-3626.

899 F.2d 1350 (1990)

Catherine M. JONES v. PITTSBURGH NATIONAL CORPORATION t/d/b/a Pittsburgh National Bank, a federally-chartered banking corporation; American Motors Corporation, a Delaware Business Corporation; Amica Mutual Insurance Company, a Rhode Island Business Corporation; American Auto Sales, Incorporated, t/d/b/a Wilkinsburg Jeep, a Pennsylvania Business Corporation; White-hall Adjusters, a Pennsylvania Business Corporation; McKean Motors, Inc., a Pennsylvania Business Corporation; Golick Corporation, a Pennsylvania Business Corporation; Streets Run Auto Service, a Pennsylvania Business Corporation v. David A. JONES, Third party deft., Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided April 3, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David A. Jones (argued), Professor of Law & Management Graduate School of Public and Intern. Affairs University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa., appellant pro se.

G. Richard Gold and Ann M. Weinthal, Campbell, Sherrard & Burke, P.C., Pittsburgh, Pa., for Pittsburgh Nat. Corp., Golick Corp., and Street Run Auto Service.

Diana F. Wilkins and Barry M. Simpson, Ecker, Rome and Simpson, P.C., Pittsburgh, Pa., for McKean Motors, Inc.

Kenneth W. Lee (argued), Plowman & Spiegel, Pittsburgh, Pa., for American Sales, Inc.

Kenneth S. Mroz, Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote, P.C., Pittsburgh, Pa., for American Motors Corp., Amica Mut. Ins. Co., and Whitehall Adjusters, appellees.

Before SLOVITER, GREENBERG and SEITZ, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

SEITZ, Circuit Judge.

David Jones (appellant), an attorney, appeals from the order of the district court dated August 22, 1989, denying his motion for recusal of the district judge and for reconsideration of the allowance of attorneys' fees and expenses against him.

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This court views a motion characterized as a motion for reconsideration as the "functional equivalent" of a Rule 59(e) motion to alter or amend a judgment...

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