A federal judge stopped short of imposing what would have been a rare sanction against an assistant U.S. attorney who failed to bring an official of a client government agency to a settlement conference, as directed by a magistrate judge.
Eastern District Judge I. Leo Glasser (See Profile) on Sept. 11 vacated Magistrate Judge Roanne Mann's recommendation for a $100 sanction, writing in Hamilton v. United States, 10-cv-3367 that the assistant U.S. attorney had acted out of "instinct with a fortuitous miscue or, at the very least, a belief that the client's 'availability by other means' would have been acceptable."
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