Update (February 12, 2016): California lawyer, Steven Lobbin, the sanctioned lawyer (see earlier posts, below), sought appellate relief (his voluminous brief, here, and the response, here) and, this week, got none. Will Aviva Sports, Inc. or its lawyers finally get the sanctions award???
Update (December 19, 2014): Without comment, a generous reader took the time to send Minnesota Litigator a few documents related to the case, described below (here and here). The first represents that Eclipse Group finally paid the sanction fees ordered against it. The second represents a different case in which additional misconduct of the Eclipse Group law firm is alleged in a separate case.
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Update (November 19, 2014): Should the sanctioned lawyer and his sanctioned law firm get some kind of “bonus points” for effort or for the creativity for their response to the latest motion brought against them to pay up on the sanction levied against them last summer, described below? What are they thinking?
Original post (October 15, 2014) (under subject line: How Much Would You Pay to Buy $20,540.50?): Seriously. I will sell you $20,540.50 if the price is right. (And it might be less than $20,540.50, by the way. depending on your delivery date (plus shipping and handling)). Give me a jingle.
The reason I pose this silly question is that Plaintiff Aviva Sports won an award of sanctions for $20,540.50 in July, 2013 and, to date, it has not gotten any money. How much should Aviva and its lawyers invest in seeking payment? Most recently. Aviva Sports’ counsel has brought a motion to add a $1,000/day fine on Stephen Lobbin and the Eclipse Group until they cough up the $20,540.50. So, in a year, they’d presumably be entitled to $385,540.50. For which they will have paid how much? The asset of a receivable can become a liability.