Gerald Zuk v. Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute of the Medical College of Pennsylvania, Benjamin G. Lipman

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• holding that § 1927 award is unavailable for failing to adequately investigate the facts and law prior to filing a complaint
• holding that § 1927 award is unavailable for failing to adequately investigate the facts and law prior to filing a complaint
• noting that claim for replevin had arisen once defendant’s possession was “open, notorious, and under claim of right”
• noting that claim for replevin had arisen once defendant’s possession was “open, notorious, and under claim of right”
• opining that “discovery is not intended as a fishing expedition permitting the speculative pleading of a case first and then pursuing discovery to support it; the plaintiff must have some basis in fact for the action”
• reversing § 1927 sanctions imposed “not because of any multiplicity of the proceedings or delaying tactics, but for failure to make a reasonably adequate inquiry into the facts and law before filing the lawsuit”

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