Murphy v. BOARD OF EDUC. ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL

How courts have described this case

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• awarding fees to defendant where plaintiff deliberately inflated charges with ad hominem attacks and offered contradictory explanations of his own actions in deposition
• defendant “was required to do some digging before ferreting out the frivolousness of th[e] case.”
• fee awards to prevailing defendants “serv[e] as a deterrent to litigants who bring, or are contemplating bringing, frivolous lawsuits”
• “it is fair to say that if ever there were a case in which fees should be awarded to a prevailing defendant, this is it”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).