Appeal Sanctions: Appellate Sanctions Imposed In Two Cases Where Interlocutory Appeals Were Involved And A Failure To Share The Appellate Record

Real Rubs Were Attacks On Lower Court and Appellate Justices.

            In Schwartzman v. South Coast Tax Resolution, Inc., Case No. B314770 et al. (2d Dist., Div. 2 Nov. 17, 2023) (unpublished) and Czech v. Herrera, Case No. B316020 (2d Dist., Div. 2 Nov. 17, 2023) (unpublished), the appellate court in two appeals affirmed respective frivolous appeal sanctions against appellants’ attorney.  You can look up the sanctions amount, but the message is that the appellate court believed it proper to impose sanctions payable to respondents’ counsel and the DCA clerk because the appeals were meritless and cast offensive aspersions against the lower and appellate courts.  They did cite a recent published decision which allowed recovery of fees to a litigant based on an incivility rationale.