UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 96-1054

VAL E. WEAVER, Plaintiff - Appellant, versus NORTH AMERICAN TECHNOLOGIES GROUP, INCORPO- RATED, a Delaware corporation; NORTH AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP, INCORPORATED, a Delaware corporation, Defendants - Appellees.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, at Greenbelt. Deborah K. Chasanow, District Judge. (CA- 95-2227-DKC)

Submitted: April 17, 1997 Decided: April 24, 1997 Before NIEMEYER and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges, and BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge.

Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Dushko S. Zdravkovich, DUSHKO S. ZDRAVKOVICH & ASSOCIATES, Upper Marlboro, Maryland, for Appellant. Robert L. Ferguson, Jr., FERGUSON, SCHETELICH, HEFFERNAN & MURDOCK, P.A., Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellees.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

See Local Rule 36(c).

PER CURIAM: Appellant appeals the district court's order granting Appel- lees' motion for sanctions. We have reviewed the record and the district court's opinion and find that the district court did not abuse its discretion either in assessing sanctions against Appel- lant's counsel, or in failing to conduct an evidentiary hearing in this matter. Accordingly, we affirm on the reasoning of the dis- trict court. Weaver v. North American Technologies Group, Inc., No. CA-95-2227-DKC (D. Md. Nov. 29, 1995). We deny Appellees' motion for sanctions on appeal. We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the mate- rials before the court and argument would not aid the decisional process.

AFFIRMED