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[CITE: 28USC1927]

 
               TITLE 28--JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
 
                            PART V--PROCEDURE
 
                       CHAPTER 123--FEES AND COSTS
 
Sec. 1927. Counsel's liability for excessive costs

    Any attorney or other person admitted to conduct cases in any court 
of the United States or any Territory thereof who so multiplies the 
proceedings in any case unreasonably and vexatiously may be required by 
the court to satisfy personally the excess costs, expenses, and 
attorneys' fees reasonably incurred because of such conduct.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 957; Pub. L. 96-349, Sec. 3, Sept. 12, 
1980, 94 Stat. 1156.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 829 (R.S. Sec. 982).
    Word ``personally'' was inserted upon authority of Motion Picture 
Patents Co. v. Steiner et al., 1912, 201 F. 63, 119 C.C.A. 401. 
Reference to ``proctor'' was omitted as covered by the revised section.
    See definition of ``court of the United States'' in section 451 of 
this title.
    Changes were made in phraseology.


                               Amendments

    1980--Pub. L. 96-349 substituted judicial authorization to require 
attorneys to satisfy excess costs, expenses, and attorneys' fees 
reasonably incurred because of multiplication of proceedings for such 
prior authority to impose liability for increased costs based on 
multiplication of proceedings.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 2503 of this title; title 19 
section 1516a.
