Prentiss E. Smith, M.D., Phillip A. Wittmann, Movants-Appellants v. Our Lady of the Lake Hospital, Inc., Etc.

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• stating that a district court can properly consider the pro se status of litigant
• noting that although an attorney “need not provide an absolute guarantee of the correctness of the legal theory advanced in the paper he files . . . [he] must certify that he has conducted reasonable inquiry into the relevant law”
• noting that although an attorney “need not provide an absolute guarantee of the correctness of the legal theory advanced in the paper he files. . . . [he] must certify that he has conducted reasonable inquiry into the relevant law”
• reversing the district court's sanctions order, noting that the lawyers were entitled to base their analysis in part upon the factual information provided by forwarding counsel
• reversing the imposition of Rule 11 sanctions, although the Court “doubted the merits of Smith’s suit,” and finding that “the attorneys’ investigation, while not perfect, was reasonable under the circumstances”
• because the lawyers had only two months in which to investigate a civil Racketeer Influenced & Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO

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