Federal Case

How courts have described this case

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

• finding a Chapter 75 award of attorney’s fees to a prevailing defendant should not be based “simply on the filing of a frivolous suit but also on the prolonged maintenance of a frivolous suit.”
• noting the need to balance these considerations in the Title VII context
• “[D]ogged pursuit of a colorable claim becomes actionable bad faith once the attorney learns (or should have learned) that the claim is bound to fail.”
• “Sanctions are appropriate for pursuing a case after it becomes clear that the case is without merit.”
• “Litigants should be able to defend themselves from the imposition of sanctions without incurring additional sanctions.”
• “If one employee was unfairly preselected for the position, the preselection would work to the detriment of all applicants for the job, black and white alike.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).