Two Atlanta lawyers have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a $2.7 million attorney fee sanction against Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. awarded by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, saying the punishment is excessive and violates established rules for making such awards.
Baker Donelson shareholder Linda Klein, current president of the American Bar Association, is listed as counsel of record on an amicus curiae brief filed with the Supreme Court in the Goodyear case. Laurie Webb Daniel, head of Holland & Knight’s Atlanta litigation practice group and chair of the firm’s national appellate team, is of counsel along with firm colleagues Samuel Spital and Matthew Friedlander. They took issue with the Ninth Circuit for upholding the sanction a trial judge imposed against Goodyear for withholding records in discovery for a car crash case involving a tire blowout.
