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Kevin ASHFORD, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF RIVERDALE, Derry Walker, in his individual and official capacity as code enforcement officer for the City of Riverdale, et al., Defendants-Appellees.
    No. 10-11038
    Non-Argument Calendar.
    United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
    July 29, 2010.
    Michael Bernard King, Attorney at Law, Jonesboro, GA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
    Michael David Hoffer, William T. Mitchell, Cruser & Mitchell, LLP, Norcross, GA, for Defendants-Appellees.
    Before TJOFLAT, BARKETT and HULL, Circuit Judges.
   PER CURIAM:

On March 31, 2009, the district court entered an order dismissing plaintiffs complaint on the basis of res judicata. In the same order, the court denied plaintiffs motion to remand the case to state court. Plaintiff had contended that the case should not have been removed to federal court because his complaint failed to state a claim within the district court’s federal question jurisdiction. The district court disagreed, concluding that the complaint “plainly assert[ed] claims relating to the violation of [plaintiffs] Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights.” In the March 31 order, the court imposed Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11 sanctions against plaintiffs attorney because the claims the attorney alleged in plaintiffs claim were “objectively frivolous, in light of res.judica-ta principles.” The court ordered defendants to provide supporting documentation for their reasonable attorney’s fees and costs incurred in defending the action by April 17, 2009. Defendants complied, and the court then ordered plaintiffs attorney to respond by April 30, 2009. Plaintiffs attorney failed to do so.

Instead, on April 15, 2009, plaintiff, represented by the same attorney, moved the court to reconsider its March 31 order. The court denied the motion for reconsideration on February 5, 2010. On February 8, 2010, the court entered an order granting defendants $17,592 in attorney’s fees and costs against plaintiffs attorney. The next day, the clerk of the court entered a final judgment in conformance with the February 8 order.

On March 6, 2010, plaintiff, still represented by the same attorney, filed a notice of appeal. The notice stated that plaintiff was appealing the March 31, 2009 and February 5, 2010 orders. This is the appeal before us now.

We find no error in either of the appealed orders and therefore affirm them.

AFFIRMED.