Cannedy v. Pacific Gas & Electric Co.

How later courts describe this case

• magistrate's order requiring corporation to produce corporate officers in Chicago was correct because location was corporation's principal place of business
• motion to reconsider is frivolous if it contains no new evidence or arguments or law that explains why court should change an original order
• “An attorney takes a frivolous position if he fails to make a reasonable inquiry into facts (which later prove false) ...”
• direet effect is one that is substantial and foreseeable, mere financial loss is insufficient