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UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 14-1541

JONATHAN D. MILLER; NYE, PEABODY, STIRLING, HALE & MILLER, 

LLP,

Appellants,

v.

NATIONAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION, INCORPORATED,

Appellee.

No. 14-1543

DANIEL JOSEPH SCHENDZIELOS; SCHENDZIELOS & ASSOCIATES, LLC,

Appellants,

v.

NATIONAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION, INCORPORATED,

Appellee.

No. 14-1576

JOHN R. BEHRMANN; NANCY BEHRMANN,

Appellants,

v.

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NATIONAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION, INCORPORATED,

Appellee.

Appeals from the United States District Court for the Eastern 

District of Virginia, at Alexandria. Leonie M. Brinkema, 

District Judge. (1:13-cv-01181-LMB-TCB; 09-10525-BFK)

Submitted: March 31, 2015 Decided: April 8, 2015

Before WILKINSON, AGEE, and DIAZ, Circuit Judges.

Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

John F. Bloss, HIGGINS BENJAMIN PLLC, Greensboro, North 

Carolina; Daniel J. Schendzielos, SCHENDZIELOS & ASSOCIATES, 

LLC, Greenwood Village, Colorado; Jonathan D. Miller, NYE, 

PEABODY, STIRLING, HALE & MILLER, Santa Barbara, California, for 

Appellants. David B. Goroff, FOLEY & LARDNER, LLP, Chicago, 

Illinois; Erika L. Morabito, FOLEY & LARDNER, LLP, Washington, 

D.C., for Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:

John R. Behrmann, Nancy Behrmann, and their attorneys, 

Jonathan Miller, Nye Peabody, Stirling, Hale and Miller, LLP, 

and Daniel Joseph Schendzielos, Schendzielos & Associates, LLC, 

appeal from the district court’s order affirming the orders of 

the bankruptcy court denying the Behrmanns’ motion for leave to 

pursue litigation against the directors and officers of the 

Debtor, National Heritage Foundation, Incorporated, and granting 

National Heritage Foundation’s motion for sanctions. We have 

reviewed the record and the parties’ arguments on appeal, and we 

find no reversible error. Accordingly, we affirm for the 

reasons stated by the district court. National Heritage Found., 

Inc. v. Miller, No. 1:13-cv-01181-LMB-TCB (E.D. Va. May 5, 

2014). Although we deny National Heritage Foundation’s motion 

to strike the Appellants’ Reply brief, we grant the motion to 

submit these appeals on the briefs and dispense with oral 

argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately 

presented in the materials before this court and argument would 

not aid the decisional process.

AFFIRMED

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