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Parties Involved:
Jonathan D. Miller
Appellant
National Heritage Foundation, Incorporated
Appellee
Nye, Peabody, Stirling, Hale & Miller, LLP
Appellant
Daniel Joseph Schendzielos
Appellant
Schendzielos & Associates, LLC
Appellant
Lelia Palmore Winget-Hernandez
Appellant
Winget-Hernandez, P.C.
Appellant

Document Text:

UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 14-2178

JOHN R. BEHRMANN; NANCY BEHRMANN,

Appellants,

v.

NATIONAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION, INCORPORATED,

Appellee.

No. 14-2181

DANIEL JOSEPH SCHENDZIELOS; SCHENDZIELOS & ASSOCIATES, LLC; 

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

LLP,

Appellants,

v.

NATIONAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION, INCORPORATED,

Appellee.

No. 14-2276

JOHN R. BEHRMANN; NANCY BEHRMANN; LELIA PALMORE WINGETHERNANDEZ; WINGET-HERNANDEZ, P.C.; JOHN F. BLOSS; HIGGINS 

BENJAMIN PLLC,

Appellants,

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v.

NATIONAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION, INCORPORATED,

Appellee.

No. 14-2277

DANIEL JOSEPH SCHENDZIELOS; SCHENDZIELOS & ASSOCIATES, LLC; 

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

LLP; LELIA PALMORE WINGET-HERNANDEZ; WINGET-HERNANDEZ, 

P.C.,

Appellants,

v.

NATIONAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION, INCORPORATED,

Debtor - Appellee.

Appeals from the United States District Court for the Eastern 

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

District Judge. (1:14-cv-00859-LMB-TCB; 1:14-cv-00875-LMB-TCB; 

09-10525-BFK)

Submitted: July 27, 2015 Decided: July 30, 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Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.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, LLP, Santa Barbara, 

California; Lelia P. Winget-Hernandez, WINGET-HERNANDEZ, PC, 

Troy, Virginia, for Appellants. Erika L. Morabito, Brittany J. 

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Nelson, FOLEY & LARDNER LLP, Washington, D.C.; David B. Goroff, 

FOLEY & LARDNER LLP, Chicago, Illinois, 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Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.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, 

Daniel Joseph Schendzielos, Schendzielos & Associates, LLC, 

Jonathan D. Miller, Nye, Peabody, Stirling, Hale & Miller, LLP, 

appeal from the district court’s order affirming the bankruptcy 

court’s order entering judgment against them in the amount of 

$18,000, based on the court’s prior determination of their 

contempt of court and their delay in purging the contempt. 

These Appellants, along with Lelia Palmore Winget-Hernandez, 

Winget-Hernandez, P.C., John F. Bloss, and Higgins Benjamin 

PLLC, appeal from the district court’s orders determining that 

the appeal from the $18,000 judgment was frivolous and imposing 

sanctions based on National Heritage Foundation’s attorneys’ 

fees incurred in litigating the appeals and the Appellants’ 

Motion to Strike the Appellee’s Brief. 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. Behrmann v. Nat’l Heritage Found., Inc., 

Nos. 1:14-cv-00859-LMB-TCB; 1:14-cv-00875-LMB-TCB (E.D. Va. 

filed Sept. 26, entered Sept. 29, 2014; filed Oct. 29, entered

Oct. 30, 2014; & Nov. 7, 2014). We grant the Appellee’s

unopposed motion to submit these appeals on the briefs and 

dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal

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contentions are adequately presented in the materials before 

this court and argument would not aid the decisional process.

AFFIRMED

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