· 4/16/2001
Katherine v. Brown's Day Care Center, Inc.
Citations
- 776 A.2d 390
- 172 Vt. 574
- 2001 Vt. LEXIS 151
How courts have described this case
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- explaining that “attorneys in this state are on notice that negotiating in bad faith during settlement negotiations can result in sanctions.”
- overturning court sanctions order that was, in effect, “broad enough to make a person who commits professional misconduct, even criminal misconduct, during a mediation immune from disciplinary sanction or prosecution because no one can lawfully disclose the misconduct”
- An attorney to be sanctioned is “entitled to some explanation why the reasons for the disclosure were not only wrong, but so wrong that they were advanced in bad faith.”
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Judges: Amestoy, C.J., and Dooley, Morse, Johnson and Skoglund
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