SAN SHIAH ENTERPRISE v. PRIDE SHIPPING, CORP.

Civ. A. No. 88-0944-P-C.

783 F.Supp. 1334 (1992)

SAN SHIAH ENTERPRISE CO., LTD., Plaintiff, v. PRIDE SHIPPING CORPORATION, a Corporation; Efploia Shipping Co., S.A., and Cooper/T. Smith Stevedoring, in personam, Defendants. and TAT (USA) Copr.; Ranier Shipping Co.; Overseas Freight Corp. and Evergreen (USA), Inc., Third-Party Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. Alabama, S.D.

February 11, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Clay Rankin, III, Mobile, Ala., for plaintiff.

W.J. McDaniel, John F. McDaniel, Birmingham, Ala., William M. Moore, David M. O'Brien, M. Kathleen Miller, Gregory C. Buffalow, Mobile, Ala., for defendants.


JOHN R. BROWN, Senior Circuit Judge*.

On appeal is the magistrate judge's imposition of sanctions against the shipowners (Pride Shipping Corp. and Efploia Shipping Co., S.A.) and, in part, against Gregory C. Buffalow, Esq. We hold that the imposition against shipowners is affirmed and the imposition against counsel (Buffalow) is reversed and rendered.

The court is in agreement that the magistrate judge correctly held that a sanction...

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