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DOYLE v. MURRAY

No. 90-7117.

938 F.2d 33 (1991)

Courtney T. DOYLE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Edward MURRAY; Toni V. Bair; J.D. Netherland; T.C. Bullock, Jr., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided June 25, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sa'ad El-Amin, El-Amin & Crawford, Richmond, Va., argued, for appellant.

Mark Ralph Davis, Asst. Atty. Gen., Public Safety & Economic Development Div., Richmond, Va., for appellees; Mary Sue Terry, Atty. Gen., of Virginia, Robert H. Herring, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Public Safety & Economic Development Div., Richmond, Va., on brief.

Before PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge, STAKER, District Judge for the Southern District of West Virginia, sitting by designation, and KAUFMAN, Senior District Judge for the District of Maryland, sitting by designation.

PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from a district court decision dismissing the 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim of Courtney Doyle for failure to prosecute a claim. The court dismissed the case as a sanction resulting from the failure of Doyle's attorney, Sa'ad El-Amin, to attend a pre-trial conference. The court's memorandum opinion indicated that the dismissal was based significantly on El-Amin's misbehavior in another unrelated action before the same court...

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