Moakley v. Smallwood

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that as to fees imposed as a sanction for “litigious behavior,” such awards must be based on the “additional work” that results from that behavior
• explaining that the inherent authority of the trial court carries with it the obligation of restrained use and due process
• finding that an appeal initiated by a debtor in bankruptcy is not automatically stayed under federal bankruptcy law
• “[A] finding of bad faith conduct must be predicated on a high degree of specificity in the factual findings.”
• “[A] finding of bad faith conduct must be predicated on a high degree of specificity in the factual findings.”
• “[T]he amount of the award of attorneys’ fees must be directly related to the attorneys’ fees and costs that the opposing party has incurred as a result of the specific bad faith conduct . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).