A unanimous appeals panel in Brooklyn on Friday upheld a $14,000 sanction imposed on a Long Island attorney who when named as a defendant in a defamation lawsuit sought to implead as a third-party defendant the attorney for his adversary.
In addition to affirming the sanction, the Appellate Division, Second Department, panel on its own motion ordered the lawyer, Thomas F. Liotti, who is also a part-time village justice in Westbury, to show cause why he should not be sanctioned for appealing the $14,000 sanction imposed by Acting Supreme Court Justice Daniel Palmieri of Nassau County (NYLJ, Nov. 14, 2008).
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