Thornton v. General Motors Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• severing portion of district court's order imposing Rule 11 monetary sanctions from portion ordering payment of attorney's fees
• “[WJhere sanctions are imposed under Rule 11(c)(1)(B) by a district court on its own initiative, ... the award of attorney’s fees ... [does not] constitute a valid sanction.”
• “Normally, an unquantified award of attorney’s fees does not constitute a final appealable order pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291.”
• “Pendant appellate jurisdiction is only proper . . . where a final appealable order is ‘inextricably intertwined’ with an unappealable order or where review of the unappealable order is necessary to ensure meaningful review of the appealable order.”
• “[W]e are obligated to satisfy ourselves that appellate jurisdiction is proper.”

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