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· 10/10/2003

Gardenia Gordon v. Unifund Ccr Partners

Citations

  • 345 F.3d 1028
  • 56 Fed. R. Serv. 3d 783
  • 2003 U.S. App. LEXIS 20732
  • 2003 WL 22319274

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that the district court abused its direction by imposing Rule 11 sanctions because the request for sanctions was not made separately from other motions and was not properly served on the opposing party before being filed with the court
  • denying Rule 11 sanctions because the defendant sent informal letters to the plaintiff instead of a copy of the motion for sanctions
  • finding that moving for sanctions in a responsive memorandum violates Rule 11(c)(2)
  • reversing an order of sanctions when the moving party’s “request for sanctions . . . was procedurally deficient[]”
  • reversing sanctions award for failing to comply with Rule 11’s procedural requirements, including the safe-harbor provision
  • reversing district court’s award of Rule 11 sanctions because moving party failed to comply with Rule 11’s procedural requirements

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Judges: Arnold, Beam, Bye

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