John Akridge Co. v. Travelers Companies

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• sanctioning plaintiffs because they filed the suit in bad faith and in an attempt to “improperly circumvent the Court’s ruling in their pre vious ease”
• granting sanctions of the “full cost” of defending the plaintiff’s bad faith action
• sanctions imposed pursuant to court’s inherent authority for “blatant forum-shopping” evidenced by counsel’s decision to re-fíle case in state court “with the specific intent of circumventing [federal court’s] dismissal of ... earlier suit”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).