A Princeton lawyer who filed a questionable civil rights suit against the school district that suspended his son for knife possession was improperly sanctioned for his motion practices, a federal appeals court says.
Rotimi Owoh engaged in "dilatory tactics" and "frivolous filings," but the sanction must be reversed because he was not given proper notice he was facing a penalty, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held on Tuesday.
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