LOFTUS v. SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA TRANSP. AUTH.

No. CIV. A. 93-2471.

8 F.Supp.2d 458 (1998)

Francis J. LOFTUS, Plaintiff, v. SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania.

May 7, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Francis De Lone, Jr., Philadelphia, PA, for Francis J. Loftus.

Nicholas J. Staffieri, Septa Legal Div., Philadelphia, PA, for Southeastern Pennsylvania Transp. Authority.

Robert W. Kosman, Brodie, Techner, Rubinsky & Ford, Philadelphia, PA, for Transport Workers Union of Philadelphia, Local 234, Transport Workers Union of America/AFL-CIO.


MEMORANDUM

EDUARDO C. ROBRENO, District Judge.

Before the Court is an Order to Show Cause why counsel should not be sanctioned under the authority of 28 U.S.C. § 1927 for continuing to pursue the instant lawsuit once it became clear during the course of litigation that the lawsuit was frivolous.

As Judge Schwarzer has noted: "[o]f all the duties of the judge, imposing sanctions on lawyers is perhaps the most unpleasant."1<...

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