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THORNTON v. GENERAL MOTORS CORP.

No. 96-30777.

136 F.3d 450 (1998)

Donna THORNTON, Plaintiff, v. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee, v. Berney L. STRAUSS, Movant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 2, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Wilkinson Rachal, Robert K. McCalla, McCalla, Thompson, Pyburn, Hymowitz & Shapiro, New Orleans, LA, for Defendant-Appellee.

Phillip A. Wittmann, Stone, Pigman, Walther, Wittmann & Hutchinson, Richard C. Stanley, Thomas More Flanagan, Stanley & Flanagan, New Orleans, LA, for Movant-Appellant.

Before EMILIO M. GARZA, PARKER and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

Appellant attorney, Berney L. Strauss, was sanctioned under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11 by the district court on its own initiative for filing a lawsuit on behalf of Donna Thornton against General Motors, Inc. for punitive damages without first having made a reasonable inquiry into the facts underlying Thornton's claim. In imposing the sanctions, the district court suspended Strauss from the practice of law before the Western District of Louisiana...

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