The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed an order of the Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appeals Panel that would permit the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to suspend a lawyer from practice in that court. In a case of first impression in the Ninth Circuit, the court of appeals concluded that the Bankruptcy Court possesses the inherent authority to suspend and sanction a lawyer for acting in bad faith and with willful misconduct, although its authority should be exercised with restraint.