Bryant v. Military Department of Mississippi

How courts have described this case

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• holding that by not raising it before the district court, plaintiff waived the argument that “the ‘objectively baseless’ standard ought to be applied in some different, and presumably favorable way in this case because multiple lawsuits were filed against him”
• determining that the plaintiff was not a whistleblower because she did not make a report to a state investigative body
• finding that the determination as to whether a claim is objectively baseless is not simply determined by whether the litigant won or lost the suit
• discussing Prof’l Real Estate Inv’rs, Inc. v. Columbia Pictures Indus., Inc., 508 U.S. 49, 60 (1993)
• considering PREI standard as well as test stated in Bill Johnson’s Rest. v. NLRB, 461 U.S. 731, 733-35, 103 S.Ct. 2161, 76 L.Ed.2d 277 (1983), in labor context
• requiring plaintiffs to show both elements to prevail on retaliation-by-lawsuit claims

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).