H. L. Green Co. v. United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

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• finding that “once a court determines that sanctions are appropriate, equitable factors may be an ingredient in the discretionary aspect” of the sanction
• Court should consider whether the party seeking fees caused the litigation to be longer than necessary, because a duty of mitigation exists for that party.
• Court may consider the “experience of the lawyer, and whether the area of law was one that required special expertise.”
• in assessing reasonableness of inquiry, trial court should consider, among other things, the time available for such inquiry
• “shall impose” language of Rule 11 requires court to impose a sanction
• “[The firivolousness] portion of Rule 11 is composed of two subparts: whether the party or attorney made a reasonable inquiry into the facts, and whether the party or attorney made a reasonable inquiry into the law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).