Agency of Natural Resources v. Lyndonville Savings Bank & Trust Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating “that courts have inherent power, independent of Rule 11, to award attorney’s fees in exceptional cases based on the bad-faith conduct of litigants”
• describing the exception to the American Rule for bad faith conduct of litigants
• “[U]nder the safe-harbor provision, sanctions are generally .unavailable, as a matter of law, if the moving party fails to abide by the rule’s procedural requirements.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).