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Nature of Suit Code: 290
Nature of Suit: Other Real Property Actions
Cause of Action: 

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FILED 

UNITED STATES COURT OF United States Court of Appeals APPEALS Tenth Circuit 

TENTH CIRCUIT 

ROBERT L. BREWSTER ) 

) 

Plaintiff-Appellant,) 

) 

NOV 13 1990 

ROBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

v. ) No. 90-8037 

) (D. Wyo. No. C89-0320-J) 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ) 

) 

Defendant-Appellee. ) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

Before ANDERSON, BALDOCK, and EBEL, Circuit Judges. 

After examining the briefs and appellate record, this panel 

has determined unanimously that oral argument would not materially 

assist the determination of this appeal. See Fed. R. App. P. 

34(a); 10th Cir. R. 34.1.9. Therefore, the case is ordered 

submitted without oral argument. 

The appellant's request that this appeal be considered en 

bane was circulated to the entire court. No active judge called 

for a poll. Accordingly, appellant's request that this case be 

heard en bane is denied. 

* This order and judgment has no precedential value and shall not 

be cited, or used by any court within the Tenth Circuit, except 

for purposes of establishing the doctrines of the law of the case, 

res judicata, or collateral estoppel. 10th Cir. R. 36.3. 

Appellate Case: 90-8037 Document: 010110047899 Date Filed: 11/13/1990 Page: 1 
Plaintiff-appellant Robert L. Brewster filed suit against the 

United States of America in the Federal District Court for the 

District of Wyoming seeking the return of all lands between the 

40th and 48th parallels from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific 

Ocean. The district court held that Brewster's complaint was 

barred by the statute of limitations, the Fifth Amendment, failure 

to join indispensable parties and violation of Fed. R. Civ. P. 

8(a)(2). The district court also held that Brewster's claim was 

frivolous and imposed Rule 11 sanctions of $1,071.65 against him 

to compensate the United States for attorney's fees and costs 

incurred in defending this suit. 

Brewster has appealed the lower court's decision to dismiss 

his claim as well as its decision to impose sanctions upon him. 

For the reasons stated by the district court we affirm its 

dismissal of Brewster's claim. Similarly we affirm the district 

court's imposition of Rule 11 sanctions against him. Brewster 

raised a number of other issues, each of which we find equally 

lacking in merit. Therefore, we grant the United States' request 

to impose further sanctions against Brewster for what we deem to 

be a frivolous and meritless appeal. 

We are empowered under the Federal Rules of Appellate 

Procedure to "award just damages and single or double costs to the 

appellee" if the appeal is frivolous. Fed. R. App. P. 38. 

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Because we find that "the result is obvious and that the 

appellant's argument is entirely without merit," we remand to the 

district court to award double costs and attorney's fees to the 

United States for its defense of this appeal. Braley v. Campbell, 

832 F.2d 1504, 1510 (10th Cir. 1987) (en bane) (quotations 

omitted). 

Therefore we AFFIRM the district court's dismissal of 

Brewster's claim as well as its decision to impose Rule 11 

sanctions against him. We REMAND to the district court with 

instructions that it award reasonable attorneys' fees as well as 

double cost to the United States to compensate it for defending 

Brewster's appeal. The mandate sh~ll issue forthwith . 

Entered for the Court 

David M. Ebel 

Circuit Judge 

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