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DAWSON v. U.S.

No. 94-10938.

68 F.3d 886 (1995)

Johnnie DAWSON, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellant, and R. Wayne Hughes and Claude D. Brown, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 31, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank W. Hunger, Asst. Atty. Gen., Douglas N. Letter, Steve Frank, Barbara C. Biddle, Appellate Staff, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civil Div., Washington, DC, for appellant.

Art Brender, Fort Worth, TX, for Hughes.

John M. Faust, Robert Cynkar, Michael Kirk, Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge, Washington, DC, for amicus curiae Nat. Assoc. of Asst. U.S. Attys.

Ronald L. Goranson, Dallas, TX, David Cunningham, Houston, TX, for amicus curiae Tex. Criminal Defense Lawyers Ass'n.

Before SMITH, BARKSDALE and BENAVIDES, Circuit Judges.

RHESA HAWKINS BARKSDALE, Circuit Judge:

At issue are sanctions imposed by United States District Judge John H. McBryde against Assistant United States Attorneys R. Wayne Hughes and Claude D. Brown, based on a local rule that civil litigants "make a good-faith effort to settle" — in this instance, a pro se Federal Tort Claims Act claim by a federal prisoner for injuries from voluntary recreation, in which Hughes and Brown were counsel for the United States...

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