Opinion

Constructivist Foundation v. DeKalb County Board of Tax Assessors

  • 504 U.S. 986
  • 60 U.S.L.W. 3841
  • 112 S. Ct. 2969
  • 119 L. Ed. 2d 589
  • 1992 U.S. LEXIS 3585
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Filed
Jun 15, 1992
Status
Published
Cited by
21 cases
Authority
More cited than 89.3%

affirming award of sanctions on basis of Bankruptcy Rule 9011, while still not addressing issue of jurisdiction under § 1927

How later courts described this case

  • affirming award of sanctions on basis of Bankruptcy Rule 9011, while still not addressing issue of jurisdiction under § 1927
  • upholding bankruptcy court’s sanction against attorney for reasserting arguments made in numerous other pleadings
  • bankruptcy judge had jurisdiction to sanction claimant’s attorney since sanction itself was “core” proceeding in which bankruptcy judge could enter final order
  • "Although we upheld a bankruptcy court’s imposition of a sanction under § 1927 [in TCI Ltd.] ... we did not discuss the court's jurisdiction to impose the sanction.”

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

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