The size of sanctions in similar situations will increase as time goes on. But $300,000 or $3,000,000 sanctions in a federal appellate court, as suggested by an

The size of sanctions in similar situations will increase as time goes on. But $300,000 or $3,000,000 sanctions in a federal appellate court, as suggested by another comment, are unlikely and would happen in only the most extreme cases. Such sanctions would bankrupt most lawyers and firms. In all my years of practice I've never seen sanctions that high, ever. Indeed, sanctions in an appellate court, especially a federal one, are uncommon — mostly because the quality of the advocates and the advocacy is relatively high there. It bears noting that this case involved a repeat-offender firm (the case itself was an appeal of a sanctions order).