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BRANDT v. GOODING

Nos. 09-7907, 09-7909.

636 F.3d 124 (2011)

Donald BRANDT, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Elizabeth K. GOODING; Gooding & Gooding PA, Movants-Appellants, and Jonathan E. Ozmint; Tom Carter, Sheriff Allendale County; Attorney General of the State of South Carolina, Respondents. Donald Brandt, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Jonathan E. Ozmint; Tom Carter, Sheriff Allendale County, Respondents-Appellants, and Attorney General of the State of South Carolina, Respondent, Elizabeth K. Gooding; Gooding & Gooding PA, Movants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: February 18, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Donald John Zelenka , Office of the Attorney General of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina; Daniel A. Speights , Speights & Runyan, Hampton, South Carolina, for Appellants. James Mixon Griffin , Law Offices of James Mixon Griffin, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: A. Gibson Solomons , Speights & Runyan, Hampton, South Carolina, for Appellants Elizabeth K. Gooding and Gooding & Gooding PA. Henry D. McMaster , Attorney General, John W. McIntosh , Chief Deputy Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellants Jonathan E. Ozmint and Tom Carter . Margaret N. Fox , Griffin LLC, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellee.

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge AGEE wrote the opinion, in which Judge MOTZ and Judge KEENAN joined.

OPINION

AGEE, Circuit Judge:

Donald Brandt instituted a legal malpractice suit against Elizabeth Gooding and her law firm, Gooding & Gooding PA, (collectively "Gooding") in South Carolina state court after Gooding represented Brandt in the closing of a real estate transaction. During the course of that proceeding, the state court summarily found Brandt guilty of criminal contempt and sentenced him to six months' imprisonment for introducing a letter...

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