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WILSON v. CITIGROUP, N.A.

Docket No. 11-5085-cv.

702 F.3d 720 (2012)

Robert E. WILSON, III, Plaintiff, Langrock Sperry & Wool, LLP, and Lankford & Reed, PLLC, Appellants, v. CITIGROUP, N.A., fka Citibank, N.A., International Equity Investments, Inc., Citigroup Venture Capital International Brazil, LLC, Citigroup Venture Capital International Brazil, LP, Defendants-Appellees, Daniel Valente Dantas, Opportunity Equity Partners, Ltd., Opportunity Equity Partners, L.P., Opportunity Invest II, Inc., Opportunity Harvest II, Inc., Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: December 26, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter F. Langrock , Devin McLaughlin , Langrock Sperry & Wool, LLP, Middlebury, VT, Terrence Reed , Lankford & Reed, PLLC, Alexandria, VA., for Appellant.

Carmine D. Boccuzzi , David Y. Livshiz , Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before: KATZMANN, PARKER and WESLEY, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

This case requires us to determine whether a district court abuses its discretion by ordering attorneys to pay their adversaries' legal fees and costs as a sanction for filing opposition papers four days late where the district court does not find that the attorneys acted in bad faith, and does not provide the attorneys notice of the impending sanctions or an opportunity to be heard. We conclude that it does.1

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