Palm Beach Polo, Inc. v. Village of Wellington

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• stating that bad faith under § 1927 is a finding of fact reviewable for clear error
• stating that before sanctions can be assessed, due process requires notice and an opportunity to be heard
• noting that an indicator of bad faith is that the claims were meritless and “counsel knew or should have known this”
• noting that an indicator of bad faith is that the claims were meritless and “counsel knew or should have known this”
• stating that “[section] 1927 sanctions are applicable only to an attorney”
• finding defendant received notice in the form of the motion for sanctions that identified the conduct at issue under Section 1927

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).