Baker v. Alderman

How courts have described this case

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• holding that purpose of sanctions is not to deter novel legal arguments or cases of first impression
• holding that a court should take into account a party’s ability to pay when determining the amount of monetary sanctions to be awarded
• noting that “the purpose of Rule 11 is to deter frivolous lawsuits and not to deter novel legal arguments or cases of first impression”
• noting that “the purpose of Rule 11 is to deter frivolous lawsuits and not to deter novel legal arguments or cases of first impression”
• “The purpose of Rule 11 is to deter frivolous lawsuits and not to deter novel legal arguments or cases of first impression.”
• “[T]he purpose of Rule 11 is to deter frivolous lawsuits and not to deter novel legal arguments or cases of first impression.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).