Red Carpet Studios Division of Source Advantage, Ltd. v. Sater

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• holding that attorney’s “failure to join a necessary party and the several attendant misrepresentations” constituted “vexatious conduct”
• holding that § 1927 sanctions require “something more than negligence or incompetence”
• noting that the purpose of § 1927 is “to deter dilatory litigation practices and to punish aggressive tactics that far exceed zealous advocacy”
• stating that the district court could impose sanctions in a lump sum amount less than costs actually incurred by the opposing party upon finding that the amount was sufficient to provide 24 deterrence and punishment
• applying abuse of discretion standard in reviewing amount of sanctions awarded under 28 U.S.C. § 1927
• applying abuse of discretion standard in reviewing amount of sanctions awarded under 28 U.S.C. § 1927

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).