Imposing Sanctions on Attorney, 9th Circuit’s Kozinski Cites Kozinski
Good thing for Alex Kozinski the federal claims court was run in the early 1980s by a certain judge named Alex Kozinski. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals chief judge reached back to his salad days this week for a precedent that would allow him to impose sanctions on an attorney who filed a frivolous discipline complaint against a district judge -- an apparent first transgression.