Case Name: James H. BURKS, IV, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. YELLOW TRANSPORTATION, INC., Defendant-Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2008-05-15
Citations: 278 F. App'x 472
Docket Number: No. 07-4037
Parties: James H. BURKS, IV, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. YELLOW TRANSPORTATION, INC., Defendant-Appellee.
Judges: Before: KENNEDY and MARTIN, Circuit Judges; HOOD, District Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 278
Pages: 472–473

Head Matter:
James H. BURKS, IV, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. YELLOW TRANSPORTATION, INC., Defendant-Appellee.
No. 07-4037.
United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.
May 15, 2008.
Before: KENNEDY and MARTIN, Circuit Judges; HOOD, District Judge.
The Honorable Joseph M. Hood, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Kentucky, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Mr. James H. Burks, IV appeals the district court's July 2, 2007, 2007 WL 1974872, decision denying its motion for sanctions against Yellow Transportation, Inc. Mr. Burks asserts that the district court abused its discretion by refusing to sanction Yellow Transportation for including a misleading and inaccurate statement of law, and a few misleading statements of fact in its reply brief filed in support of its motion for summary judgment.
The district court's opinion carefully analyzed the purported inaccurate and misleading statements in Yellow Transportation's brief and concluded that, while Yellow Transportation's counsel should "take better care in the future to avoid [ ] overstatements," the complained-of statements were sufficiently supported by evidence and not significantly misleading. We have carefully read the district court's opinion, the applicable law, and the parties' briefs, and we find that it was not an abuse of discretion to deny the plaintiff sanctions against the defendant. We therefore AFFIRM the district court's denial of sanctions for the reasons stated in the district court's opinion.