192174P.pdf   07/29/2020  Andrew Schlafly  v.  Eagle Forum
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  19-2174
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Smith, Chief Judge, with Colloton and Stras, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case. On claim that the district court erred in dismissing 
   plaintiff's claim in his original complaint that Eagle Forum improperly 
   removed his as a director without allowing proxy voting in violation of 
   Illinois law, plaintiff's amended complaint did not waive his claim that 
   Eagle Forum violated Illinois law by not permitting proxy voting; applying 
   Illinois's General Not for Profit Corporation Act, the court affirms the 
   district court's dismissal of plaintiff's claim; with respect to 
   plaintiff's appeal of sanctions, the district court acted within the scope 
   of its informed discretion by relying on its inherent power to make a 
   remedial award of attorneys' fees as a sanction against plaintiff because 
   Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11 was not "up to the task" in this 
   situation because of the time frames involved; no error in making an award 
   of attorneys' fees to defendant under the court's inherent power based on 
   plaintiff's bad faith; the amount of the sanction was not an abuse of the 
   district court's discretion and was supported by the material defendant 
   submitted. Judge Stras, concurring in part and dissenting in part.