171143P.pdf   04/25/2018  Ross Briggs  v.  Hon. Charles Rendlen
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  17-1143
                          and No:  18-1169
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Wollman and Colloton, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Bankruptcy. The bankruptcy court had authority to impose 
   discipline on Briggs after he failed to comply with an order directing him 
   to provide information in connection with the bankruptcy trustee's 
   attempts to obtain an order disgorging attorneys' fees in Chapter 11 
   cases; the record supported the bankruptcy court's determination that 
   Briggs was in contempt of the court's orders where he made no attempt to 
   comply with the court's directive that he seek documents and information 
   for his clients and was given multiple opportunities to comply with the 
   court's orders; while the court erred in sanctioning Briggs for 
   deliberately misleading the court because it based that conclusion on 
   disputed questions of fact without holding an evidentiary hearing, the 
   error does not compel remand because this was only one of the two 
   independent bases for the court's sanction order and the other basis has 
   been affirmed; where Rule V of the district court's disciplinary rules 
   permit the court to refer a disciplinary matter to appointed counsel for 
   investigation and prosecution, the rule does not require the court to use 
   the process, and failure to use the process in not a due process 
   violation; neither Local Rule 2094(B) nor Rule VII of the district court's 
   disciplinary rules provide a basis for the bankruptcy court's chief judge 
   to hear Briggs's reinstatement motion; nor does Rule VII provide a basis 
   for the district court's chief judge to resolve the motion.