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BREDEHOFT v. ALEXANDER

No. 95-CV-1492.

686 A.2d 586 (1996)

John M. BREDEHOFT & Elaine C. Bredehoft, Appellants, v. Richard ALEXANDER, et al., Appellees.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided December 23, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark W. Foster, Washington, DC, with whom Cyril V. Smith was on the brief, for appellants.

David G. Fiske, with whom Philip J. Harvey and Michael J. Wendorf, Washington, DC, were on the brief, for appellees.

Gary Howard Simpson, Bethesda, MD, and Woodley B. Osborne, Washington, DC, filed a brief for the Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association as amicus curiae.

Before TERRY and KING, Associate Judges, and NEWMAN, Senior Judge.

KING, Associate Judge:

In this case we are asked to decide whether an attorney's prefiling inquiry, made before a civil complaint was filed, was sufficient to preclude the imposition of sanctions under Super. Ct. Civ. R. 11; whether a trial court could impose a sanction under the former Rule 11 against an attorney who conducted the prefiling investigation but did not sign the complaint, and, if not, whether the court could otherwise sanction the nonsigning attorney...

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