National Heritage Foundation v. John Behrmann

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UNPUBLISHED PER CURIAM OPINION filed. Originating case number: 1:14-cv-00859-LMB-TCB,09-10525-BFK Copies to all parties and the district court/agency. [999631004].. [14-2178, 14-2181, 14-2276, 14-2277]

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UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 14-2178

JOHN R. BEHRMANN; NANCY BEHRMANN,
Appellants,
v.
NATIONAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION, INCORPORATED,
Appellee.

No. 14-2181

DANIEL JOSEPH SCHENDZIELOS; SCHENDZIELOS & ASSOCIATES, LLC;
JONATHAN D. MILLER; NYE, PEABODY, STIRLING, HALE & MILLER,
LLP,
Appellants,
v.
NATIONAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION, INCORPORATED,
Appellee.

No. 14-2276

JOHN R. BEHRMANN; NANCY BEHRMANN; LELIA PALMORE WINGETHERNANDEZ; WINGET-HERNANDEZ, P.C.; JOHN F. BLOSS; HIGGINS
BENJAMIN PLLC,
Appellants,

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v.
NATIONAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION, INCORPORATED,
Appellee.

No. 14-2277

DANIEL JOSEPH SCHENDZIELOS; SCHENDZIELOS & ASSOCIATES, LLC;
JONATHAN D. MILLER; NYE, PEABODY, STIRLING, HALE & MILLER,
LLP;
LELIA
PALMORE
WINGET-HERNANDEZ;
WINGET-HERNANDEZ,
P.C.,
Appellants,
v.
NATIONAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION, INCORPORATED,
Debtor - Appellee.

Appeals from the United States District Court for the Eastern
District of Virginia, at Alexandria.
Leonie M. Brinkema,
District Judge.
(1:14-cv-00859-LMB-TCB; 1:14-cv-00875-LMB-TCB;
09-10525-BFK)

Submitted:

July 27, 2015

Decided:

July 30, 2015

Before WILKINSON, AGEE, and DIAZ, Circuit Judges.

Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

John F. Bloss, HIGGINS BENJAMIN PLLC, Greensboro, North
Carolina; Daniel J. Schendzielos, SCHENDZIELOS & ASSOCIATES,
LLC, Greenwood Village, Colorado; Jonathan D. Miller, NYE,
PEABODY,
STIRLING,
HALE
&
MILLER,
LLP,
Santa
Barbara,
California; Lelia P. Winget-Hernandez, WINGET-HERNANDEZ, PC,
Troy, Virginia, for Appellants. Erika L. Morabito, Brittany J.
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Nelson, FOLEY & LARDNER LLP, Washington, D.C.; David B. Goroff,
FOLEY & LARDNER LLP, Chicago, Illinois, for Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:
John
Daniel

R.

Behrmann,

Joseph

Nancy

Schendzielos,

Behrmann,

and

Schendzielos

their

&

attorneys,

Associates,

LLC,

Jonathan D. Miller, Nye, Peabody, Stirling, Hale & Miller, LLP,
appeal from the district court’s order affirming the bankruptcy
court’s order entering judgment against them in the amount of
$18,000,

based

contempt

of

These

on

the

court’s

court

and

their

delay

in

with

Lelia

Palmore

Appellants,

Winget-Hernandez,

along
P.C.,

John

prior

F.

determination
purging

Bloss,

of

the

their

contempt.

Winget-Hernandez,

and

Higgins

Benjamin

PLLC, appeal from the district court’s orders determining that
the appeal from the $18,000 judgment was frivolous and imposing
sanctions
fees

based

incurred

on

in

National

Heritage

litigating

the

Foundation’s

appeals

Motion to Strike the Appellee’s Brief.

and

the

attorneys’
Appellants’

We have reviewed the

record and the parties’ arguments on appeal, and we find no
reversible error.

Accordingly, we affirm for the reasons stated

by the district court.
Nos.

Behrmann v. Nat’l Heritage Found., Inc.,

1:14-cv-00859-LMB-TCB;

1:14-cv-00875-LMB-TCB

(E.D.

Va.

filed Sept. 26, entered Sept. 29, 2014; filed Oct. 29, entered
Oct.

30,

unopposed
dispense

2014;

&

motion
with

Nov.
to

oral

7,

submit

2014).

We

these

appeals

argument

because

4

grant

the

on

the
the

facts

Appellee’s
briefs
and

and

legal

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presented

in

the

materials

before

this court and argument would not aid the decisional process.

AFFIRMED

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