Catherine M. Jones v. Winnepesaukee Realty

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing district court’s finding was not inevitable because record supported “two plausible views,” and district “court’s adoption of one such view” was not “clear error”
• noting “federal court possesses inherent power to shift attorneys’ fees when parties conduct litigation in bad faith” and such power “should be . . . reserved for egregious circumstances”
• “This power should be used sparingly and reserved for egregious circumstances.”
• “When confronted with a party’s defiance of its management authority, a district court is necessarily vested with considerable discretion in deciding whether to impose sanctions on that party, and, if so, in determining what form the sanctions should take.”
• \Trial judges enjoy great latitude in carrying out case-management functions.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).