CROWE v. SMITH

No. 96-30851.

151 F.3d 217 (1998)

Larry D. CROWE, et al., Plaintiffs, v. James W. SMITH, et al., Defendants, Michael P. Tone; Anne Fiedler; Robert B. Bieck, Jr.; James W. Berry; William E. Wright; Judy L. Burnthorn; W. Glenn Burns; American Casualty Company of Reading, Pennsylvania, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 12, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Mason McCollam, Gordon, Arata, McCollam & Duplantis, New Orleans, LA, William A. Von Hoene, Thomas P. Sullivan, Jenner & Block, Chicago, IL, for Tone and Fiedler.

Daniel Lund, Albert Carter Mills, IV, Montgomery, Barnett, Browen, Read, Hammond & Mintz, New Orleans, LA, for Bieck.

Thomas M. Hayes, III, Donald C. Douglas, Jr., Hayes, Harkey, Smith & Cascio, Monroe, LA, for Berry.

Walter C. Thompson, Jr., Miguel Schor, Jan Krzysztof Frankowski, Barkley & Thompson, New Orleans, LA, for Wright and Burnthorn.

J. Michael Percy, Percy, Smith, Foote & Gadel, Alexandria, LA, for Burns.

Harry M. Reasoner, Marie Roach Yeates, Anne M. Pike, Vinson & Elkins, Houston, TX, Emmet C. Sole, Stockwell, Sievert, Viccellio, Clements & Shaddock, Lake Charles, LA, Gary Vincent Dixon, Leslie S. Ahari, Ross, Dixon & Masback, Washington, DC, for American Cas. Co. of Reading, PA.

Before JOHN R. GIBSON, JOLLY and EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judges.


E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:

American Casualty Company of Reading, Pennsylvania ("CNA"1), Michael P. Tone, Anne Fiedler, W. Glenn Burns, Robert B. Bieck, Jr., William E. Wright, Judy L. Burnthorn, and James W. Berry (collectively, the "sanctions defendants") appeal the imposition of sanctions against them by Judge Nauman S. Scott of the Federal District Court for the Western District of Louisiana.

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