United States v. David T. Braunstein

How courts have described this case

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

• defining a frivolous prosecution as one that is \foreclosed by binding precedent\ or \obviously wrong\ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• ‘“frivolous’ means ‘groundless ... with little prospect of 20 success; often brought to embarrass or annoy the defendant.”’
• ‘“frivolous’ means ‘groundless ... with little prospect of 20 success; often brought to embarrass or annoy the defendant.”’
• collecting cases from the Fourth, Fifth, and D.C. circuits
• adopting Gilbert's definition of frivolous

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).