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Court of Appeals to attorney: you should have worried about that wasted time

By Richard Binder

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The First District Court of Appeal imposed a $6,000 sanction on San Francisco attorney Andrew Dimitriou for settling a case nearly a year before oral argument, but neglecting to inform the court.

In granting the appellant?s unopposed request for dismissal, Div. Two ruled that sanctions against Andrew Dimitriou were warranted to compensate the court for the "considerable time and resources [devoted] to this pointless appeal," the court wrote in an unsigned but published opinion in Huschke v. Slater.

Dimitriou said he had not yet seen the opinion or received any notice on the matter, and declined to comment further.

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Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on December 04, 2008 (boomark / email).

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