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BRUBAKER v. CITY OF RICHMOND

No. 90-1523.

943 F.2d 1363 (1991)

Malvin W. BRUBAKER, Appellant, Richmond Financial Holding Company, Incorporated; Richmond Financial Corporation; Richmond Financial Advisory, Incorporated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CITY OF RICHMOND; Claudette B. McDaniel; Alfred E. Smith; Vernon F. Williams, Jr., Defendants-Appellees, and Thomas E. Carter; United Daniels Securities, Incorporated, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 8, 1991.

As Amended August 23, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary C. Leedes, University of Richmond Law School, Richmond, Va., argued (Thomas H. Roberts, Roberts & Landry, P.C., on brief), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Beverly Agee Burton, Asst. City Atty., Richmond, Va., argued (G. Timothy Oksman, City Attorney's Office, James Edward Sheffield, James E. Sheffield & Associates, P.C., on brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before RUSSELL and HALL, Circuit Judges, and HILL, Senior Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, sitting by designation.

OPINION

HILL, Senior Circuit Judge:

This case concerns the propriety of Rule 11 sanctions awarded to the defendants named in a sprawling 67-page complaint containing 294 numbered paragraphs and 204 pages of exhibits. Although the nearly incomprehensible, four-count complaint was inordinately lengthy and confusing, plaintiffs' grievance can be stated rather simply: plaintiffs (investment services firms) alleged that defendants, in the course of furthering...

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