MATTER OF DRAGOO

No. 98-10969.

186 F.3d 614 (1999)

In the Matter of Roy E. DRAGOO; Barbara Dragoo; Mark Thomas Halpin; John Cecial Moore, Debtors. Joan Myers and James E. Porter, Appellants, v. John C. Akard, Bankruptcy Judge, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 18, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Curt Michael Langley, Matthew Christopher Guilfoyle, Hector H. Cardenas, Davis & Shank, Houston, TX, for Appellants.

Edwin Scott Frost, Lubbock, TX, for Appellee.

Before DeMOSS and PARKER, Circuit Judges, and LAKE, District Judge.


ROBERT M. PARKER, Circuit Judge:

Appellants Joan Myers and James E. Porter appeal a sanction order. We modify the order and, as modified, affirm.

I. FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

In January 1997, Appellants' two-person, husband-wife law firm, Myers & Porter, L.L.P., was retained as local counsel by a Seattle law firm to file adversary proceedings in Chapter 7 bankruptcy proceedings in Texas involving consumer credit card debt. The Bankruptcy Court...

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