Int’l, 290 F.3d 456 (1st Cir.2002) (upholding Rule 11 sanctions of $8,690); Pimentel v. Jacobsen Fishing Co., 102 F.3d 638 (1st Cir.1996) (imposing sanctions of $8,406 on counsel, pursuant to Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 38 and section 1927); O’Ferral v. Trebol Motors Corp., 45 F.3d 561, 564 (1st Cir.1995) (upholding award of $8,000 in Rule 11 sanctions, while noting that "[n]o one remotely familiar with lawyer fees can doubt that the defense spent vastly more than $8,000 on this case”); Mariani v. Doctors Assocs., Inc., 983 F.2d 5 (1st Cir.1993) (affirming $7,500 in Rule 11 sanctions against plaintiff’s counsel, based on billing records showing that defendants had spent over $14,000 in defending challenged motion); Navarro-Ayala v. Nunez, 968 F.2d 1421, 1428 (1st Cir.1992) (<HOLDING>). 34 . The sanctions, though reduced in amount,
holding rule 11 sanction of 20000 to be excessive and reducing to 6500 holding rule 11 sanction proceeding was exempt from automatic stay holding that rule 11 is not properly used to sanction the inappropriate filing of papers where other rules more directly apply holding sanction of 250000 under federal rule of bankruptcy procedure 9011 to be excessive and reducing to 5000 holding that case law interpreting rule 11 may be use to interpret rule 9011