In re: Nora

Ct. of Appeals imposed $2,500 sanction on plaintiff’s counsel, after finding that counsel had filed frivolous appeal and had displayed conduct unbecoming member of bar. Record showed that counsel, in representing client who was party in state-court property foreclosure action, filed baseless pleadings that claimed that bank was fraudulently attempting to foreclose on said property, and then removed case to federal court without providing any colorable basis for Dist. Ct. obtaining jurisdiction over instant state-court matter. Ct. also noted that counsel had engaged in pattern of antagonistic behavior in other cases and had engaged in unnecessarily antagonistic conduct in this case, when she accused state-court judge and court reporter of fraudulently manipulating transcripts, as well as accused Dist. Ct. judge of pursuing campaign of libel against her and accused opposing counsel of actionable civil fraud and racketeering. Ct., though, suspended sanctions until time counsel submitted any future inappropriate filings.