Garet H. Danvers, on His Own Behalf, and on Behalf of Patrick H. Danvers v. Kathy Higgins Danvers

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• finding that a party should not receive full attorneys’ fees when attorney proceeded with discovery instead of filing a motion to dismiss meritless claims
• stating that the two goals of deterrence and compensation must be “balanced”
• affirming Rule 11 sanctions where the district court found that the plaintiff filed the action against his ex-wife to harass her and increase her litigation costs unnecessarily where “even cursory research would have revealed that his cause lacked merit”
• “because deterrence is the primary goal, the minimum necessary to deter the sanctioned party is the proper award, even if this amount does not fully compensate the moving party”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).