Chalmers v. Kolb

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• inherent power permits court to impose sanctions on the basis of related bad faith conduct
• “[W]e are skeptical that the commencement of a suit in an inconvenient forum may be the basis of Rule 11 sanctions where venue was not improper.”
• “[I]t would be counterproductive to use Rule 11 to penalize the assertion of non-frivolous substantive claims, even when the motives for asserting those claims are not entirely pure.” (internal citation omitted)

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