National Heritage Foundation v. John Behrmann, No. 14-2178 (4th Cir. 2015)
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UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 14-2178 JOHN R. BEHRMANN; NANCY BEHRMANN, Appellants, v. NATIONAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION, INCORPORATED,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, 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 Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.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. 2 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 Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit. 3 PER CURIAM: John Daniel R. Behrmann, Joseph Nancy Schendzielos, Behrmann, and Schendzielos their & attorneys, Associates, LLC, Jonathan D.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 contentions are adequately presented in the materials before this court and argument would not aid the decisional process. AFFIRMED 5
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