A million dollar sanctions award to a Maryland law firm will stand in a long-running fee dispute between firms, the Fourth Circuit said Thursday.
The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed a Maryland district court’s sanctions against attorney Paul J. Napoli, the law firm Napoli Shkolnik PLLC, and several other firms for abuse of process regarding two New York suits that sought the Maryland case’s dismissal.
“In every practical sense Napoli asked a state court in New York to overrule a federal district court in Maryland,” Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the US Court of Appeals ...
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