Fleischer v. Benjamin

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that at the time of filing suits in police misconduct cases, plaintiff is not \likely to know much about the relevant internal operations of the police department\
• stating that “[c]ourts should be sensitive to the impact of sanctions on attorneys. They can be economically punishing, as well as professionally harmful”
• noting that at the time of filing suits in police misconduct cases, plaintiff is not \likely to know much about the relevant internal operations of the police department\
• explaining that there is no “meaningful difference” between the standards for imposing sanctions under section 1927 and a court’s inherent authority
• approving the district court's reducing sanction against attorney from $51,000 to $5,000 because of his financial condition
• “Limiting the application of rule 11 to testing the attorney’s conduct at the time a paper is signed is virtually mandated by the plain language of the rule.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).