MGIC INDEM. CORP. v. MOORE

No. 89-55713.

952 F.2d 1120 (1991)

MGIC INDEMNITY CORPORATION, Plaintiff and McKenna, Conner & Cuneo, formerly counsel of record to plaintiff MGIC Indemnity Corporation, Appellant, v. Curtis Donald MOORE, Defendant, and Karen L. Simpson, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided December 27, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter J. Sullivan, Marina Del Rey, Cal., for plaintiff.

A. Howard Matz, Bird, Marella, Boxer, Wolpert & Matz, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellants.

Mark L. Edwards, Lawrence E. Heller, Turner, Gerstenfeld, Wilk, Tigerman & Heller, Beverly Hills, Cal., for defendant-appellee.

Before SNEED, BEEZER and TROTT, Circuit Judges.


BEEZER, Circuit Judge:

McKenna, Conner & Cuneo (McKenna), counsel for MGIC Indemnity Corporation (MGIC), appeals the district court's order imposing sanctions against MGIC under Fed.R.Civ.P. 11 and against itself under both Rule 11 and 28 U.S.C. § 1927 for not dismissing defendant Karen L. Simpson from a complex insurance lawsuit1 just prior to trial. We have jurisdiction. 28 U.S.C. § 1291. Because the district court abused...

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