Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority v. Mitchell

How courts have described this case

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

• negligence case in which plaintiff claimed she tripped and fell when entering defendant’s elevator
• mere negligence will not support an award of attorney fees based on bad faith
• “Bad faith is not simply bad judgment or negligence, but it imports a dishonest purpose or some moral obliquity, and implies conscious doing of wrong, and means breach of known duty through some motive of interest or ill will.” (cleaned up)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).