JOHNSON v. A.W. CHESTERTON CO.

Nos. 93-1628, 93-1661.

18 F.3d 1362 (1994)

Ray A. JOHNSON and R.J. Industries, Incorporated, Plaintiffs-Counterclaim Defendants, v. A.W. CHESTERTON COMPANY, Defendant-Counterclaim Plaintiff-Third-Party Plaintiff-Counterclaim Defendant-Third-Party Defendant-Appellee, Cross-Appellant, v. Russell HITCHCOCK, Third-Party Defendant-Counterclaimant, and Hitchcock International, Limited and Robert C. Hitchcock Company, Incorporated, Third-Party Plaintiffs. Appeal of Paul A. PIASKOSKI, Appellant-Cross-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided March 2, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul A. Piaskoski, Anthony A. Coletti, Piaskoski & Associates, Milwaukee, WI, for Ray Johnson and R.J. Industries, Inc.

Paul A. Piaskoski, Piaskoski & Associates, Milwaukee, WI, for Hitchcock Intern., Ltd., Robert C. Hitchcock Co., Inc. and Russell Hitchcock.

Thomas L. Shriner, Jr., James L. Huston (argued), Foley & Lardner, Milwaukee, WI, for A.W. Chesterton Co.

W. Stuart Parsons (argued), Quarles & Brady, Anthony A. Coletti, Paul A. Piaskoski, Piaskoski & Associates, Milwaukee, WI, for Paul A. Piaskoski.

Before COFFEY and MANION, Circuit Judges, and SKINNER, District Judge.


SKINNER, District Judge.

These are cross appeals from the imposition of a sanction against Paul A. Piaskoski ("Piaskoski"), attorney for the Johnson and Hitchcock interests, in favor of A.W. Chesterton Company ("the defendant"), under Fed.R.Civ.P. 11. Piaskoski asserts that it was error to impose the sanction. The defendant counters that it was an abuse of discretion for the district judge to impose only 20% of the attorney's fees incurred by it in defense of allegedly...

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