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UNPUBLISHED PER CURIAM OPINION filed.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UNPUBLISHED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Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.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Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.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
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grant
the
on
the
the
facts
Appellee’s
briefs
and
and
legal
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are
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presented
in
the
materials
before
this court and argument would not aid the decisional process.
AFFIRMED
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