United States v. Manchester Farming Partnership, United States of America v. Lone Pine Land, Inc., United States of America v. Priest Butte Farm, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that a “frivolous [argument] is one that is groundless,” and an argument is groundless if it is “foreclosed by binding precedent or ... obviously wrong”
• examining whether government conduct both after the indictment was filed and during trial demonstrated bad faith
• examining whether government conduct both after the indictment was filed and during trial demonstrated bad faith
• examining whether government 17 conduct both after the indictment was filed and during trial demonstrated bad faith
• “A frivolous case is one 28 1 || that is groundless . . . with little prospect of success; often brought to embarrass or annoy 2 ||the defendant.”’
• applying Black’s definition of bad faith

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).