Vollmer v. Publishers Clearing House and Campus Subscriptions

How courts have described this case

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• noting that a potential intervenor “is required to prove each of these four elements,” and that “the lack of one element requires that the motion to intervene be denied”
• vacating Rule 11 sanctions where the court appeared to investigate facts outside the record
• “On its own, Mr. Hawk’s testimony and the circumstances surrounding it would provide sufficient justification for the imposition of Rule 11 sanctions.”
• “Rule 11 requires that the least severe sanction adequate to serve the purpose of the penalty should be imposed.”
• district court entitled to consider party’s past conduct in imposing and fashioning sanctions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).