Shao

MEMORANDUM **

Linda Shao and the Law Offices of Linda Shao, APLC (collectively, “Shao”) appeal the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel’s (“BAP’s”) affirmance of the bankruptcy court’s award of sanctions. The underly *351 ing dispute is over entitlement to the proceeds of a check jointly payable to Shao and Media Group in settlement of a matter in which Shao represented Media Group, now the debtor in bankruptcy proceedings. In 2005, the bankruptcy court entered an order of sanctions against Shao on the basis of three separate findings of misconduct. In her first appeal, the BAP reversed in part and remanded for redeter-mination of the amount of sanctions after holding that two of the instances of claimed misconduct were not sanctionable.

Shao did not appeal to this court from that decision. On remand the bankruptcy court reduced the amount of the sanctions award in accord with the BAP’s holding that there was only one instance of sanc-tionable misconduct. Shao again appealed, and the BAP affirmed. Shao now appeals from that BAP decision, arguing that the amount of sanctions on remand was too high, and, in addition, that the BAP in the first appeal should not have held that there was any…