MacH v. Will County Sheriff

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that a plaintiff may abandon a claim by failing to respond to argument against it at the summary judgment stage
• “[I]t is established that Rule 11 has not robbed the district courts of their inherent power to impose sanctions.”
• “[B]ad faith may occur beyond the filing of the case and may be found, not only in the actions that led to the lawsuit, but also in the conduct of the litigation.”
• stray remarks of non-decisionmakers are typically insufficient to raise an inference of discrimination
• statute providing for award of attorney’s fees to prevailing plaintiff “does not preclude application of the common law rule that a prevailing defendant may obtain attorneys’ fees if the plaintiff litigated in bad faith”
• bad faith includes harassment, willful disobedience, and “recklessly making a frivolous claim”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).