Eugene C. Anderson v. Smithfield Foods

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• vacating sanctions where there was “scant on-point authority to guide the reasonable lawyer” to conclude that existing law did not warrant the RICO claims
• reversing an imposition of Rule 11 sanctions because even though the court agreed that the underlying claims should be dismissed, the court was “unable to conclude that only an unreasonable lawyer would have made these claims”
• “The standard for testing conduct under amended Rule 11 is reasonableness under the circumstances.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).