Before PROST, DYK, and WALLACH. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Summary: The grant or denial of attorney fees requires consideration of a party’s ...

This article provides a brief overview of misconduct that generally qualifies as vexatious litigation and provides some pointers for lawyers both in preventing such an outcome and in protecting a ...

(CN) - An order declaring a California attorney and her son "vexatious litigants" in a dispute over a family trust is too broad and restrictive, the 9th Circuit ruled Monday. The federal appeals court ...

Civil Practice Note 7, entitled “Vexatious Application/Proceeding Show Cause Procedure” (CPN 7), is a useful tool to manage hopeless litigation quickly and ...

If you've been following the RIAA's ongoing legal campaign against P2P users over the past few years, you'll recognize the name Ray Beckerman. The RIAA certainly does, having cited his "anti-RIAA blog ...

San Diego Superior Court is the second largest court in California and one of the hardest hit in terms of budget cuts. State court officials say civil caseloads for judges have doubled (even though ...

From the decision last month in Doe v. Suarez by L.A. Superior Court Judge Sarah Heide (appeal pending): This case arises from an allegation of sexual assault. According to the complaint, plaintiff ...

A Texas appeals court has upheld a trial court's order declaring law school graduate Kristofer Kastner a vexatious litigant, after he repeatedly sued two lawyers and a firm who represented him in a ...

The observations on the rising trend of filing vexatious litigation were made by a bench in a judgement by which it quashed a ...

Monday, the Illinois Appellate Court held that Abdul Mohammed should be declared a vexatious litigant, and enjoined from filing various lawsuits related to some frivolous claims that he had already ...

A lawyer previously suspended from practising after being deemed incompetent has now been barred from starting or continuing proceedings in Manitoba's appeals court without permission from a judge, ...

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