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MARIANI v. DOCTORS ASSOCIATES, INC.

No. 92-1843.

983 F.2d 5 (1993)

Gerardo MARIANI & Georgina Loureiro, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. DOCTORS ASSOCIATES, INC., et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided January 11, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry E. Woods with whom Ricardo Skerrett Yordan and Woods & Woods, San Juan, PR, were on brief, for plaintiffs, appellants.

Edward Wood Dunham with whom Christopher L. Levesque and Wiggin & Dana, New Haven, CT, and Jay A. Garcia-Gregory with whom Ricardo F. Casellas and Fiddler, Gonzalez & Rodriguez, San Juan, PR, were on brief, for defendants, appellees.

Before STAHL, Circuit Judge, CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge, and SKINNER, Senior District Judge.

STAHL, Circuit Judge.

In this appeal, plaintiffs challenge the district court's imposition of Rule 11 sanctions for their submission of a motion in a case dismissed by the district court two years earlier. Finding error solely in the district court's imposition of sanctions upon the attorneys' law firm rather than upon the responsible attorneys, we affirm, except that we impose the sanctions on the attorneys themselves.

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