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SASSOWER v. FIELD

No. 954, Docket 91-7891.

973 F.2d 75 (1992)

Elena Ruth SASSOWER, Doris L. Sassower, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Katherine M. FIELD, Curt Haedke, Lilly Hobby, William Iolonardi, Joanne Iolonardi, Robert Rifkin, individually, and as Members of the Board of Directors of 16 Lake Street Owners, Inc., Hale Apartments, DeSisto Management Inc., 16 Lake Street Owners, Inc., Roger Esposito, individually, and as an officer of 16 Lake Street Owners, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided August 13, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elena Ruth Sassower, pro se.

Doris L. Sassower, pro se.

Dennis T. Bernstein, Tuckahoe, N.Y., for defendant-appellee Hale Apartments.

Lawrence J. Glynn, White Plains, N.Y., for defendants-appellees Field, Haedke, Hobby, William Iolonardi, Joanne Iolonardi, Rifkin, & 16 Lake St. Owners, Inc.

Steven L. Sonkin, New York City (Marshall, Conway & Wright, on the brief), for defendants-appellees DeSisto Management, Inc. & Esposito.

Julius L. Chambers & Charles Stephen Ralston, New York City, submitted an amicus curiae brief for NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.

Before: LUMBARD, NEWMAN and WINTER, Circuit Judges.

JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:

This appeal from a supplemental judgment imposing sanctions upon two unsuccessful plaintiffs for the vexatious conduct of litigation involves the extraordinary remedy of an award of nearly $100,000 assessed against pro se litigants, occasioned by extraordinary conduct. The judgment was entered by the District Court for the Southern District of New York (Gerard L. Goettel, Judge), 138 F.R.D. 369, requiring Doris L. Sassower and...

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