Ransmeier v. UAL Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that “the most common reason for a sanctions award may be the ‘patently frivolous’ nature” of arguments made in a court filing
• noting that “a federal court . . . may exercise its inherent power to sanction a party or an attorney who has ‘acted in bad faith, vexatiously, wantonly, or for oppressive reasons.’” (quoting Chambers v. NASCO, Inc., 501 U.S. 32, 45–46 (1991)
• court’s “authority to impose sanctions is grounded, first and foremost, in [its] inherent power to control the proceedings that take place before [it].”
• “[A]lthough clients are responsible for dictating the ultimate goals of a lawsuit, . . . we recognize that attorneys often have considerable latitude in the exercise of their professional judgment to design litigation strategies to achieve those goals.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).