Andrews v. Bible

How courts have described this case

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

• noting further that “[r]equiring counsel to aggressively pursue dismissal of his client’s claim strikes us as being contrary to our adversary system”
• noting a violation of rule 11 could stem from “inexperience, incompetence, neglect, willfulness, or deliberate choice”
• discussing the potential use of the circuit court‟s inherent authority to award attorney‟s fees as sanctions, although not decisive to the issue on appeal in that case
• stating that courts have “the authority to sanction attorneys”
• “Baseless filing puts the machinery of justice in motion, burdening courts and individuals alike with needless inconvenience, expense, and delay.”
• “[T]he courts of this state have, under the inherent power to supervise and control their own proceedings, the authority to sanction attorneys, but only for pursuing matters in bad faith or conducting themselves in a reckless manner.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).