Richard Silva v. Peter Witschen, City of East Providence, Stephen Linder

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• rejecting \claim that attorney fees reasonably incurred in the sanctions phase may not be made the subject of a Rule 11 sanction\
• treating defense attorney’s comments to plaintiff’s counsel, in response to receiving copy of complaint before filing, that suit was unjustified and defendants intended to seek attorneys’ fees, as “substantially equivalent warning” to safe harbor
• \[W]e cannot agree that a groundless civil rights action is any less appropriate a candidate for Rule 11 sanctions than other groundless actions.\
• appellant must bear responsibility for omitting material items from appellate record
• appellant bears brunt of failure to include pertinent material in record

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