Price v. Lehtinen (In Re Lehtinen)

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the inherent power of the court permits monetary sanctions when award would be “either compensatory or ... designed to coerce compliance”
• stating in dicta that a sanction predicated on actions that occurred during a “representation of debtor in matters central to her case” was a core matter
• failure to object to bankruptcy court’s hearing of noncore matter until appeal overruled; waiver constituted consent
• “An attorney subject to disciplinary action is not entitled to the presumption of innocence, the ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’ burden of proof, con frontation of witness, or a jury trial.”
• attorney disciplinary matters arising during the course of an attorney’s representation of a debtor “in matters central to the administration” of the debtor’s case fit “comfortably within the ambit of a core proceeding”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).