Walker v. City of Bogalusa

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• affirming attorney’s fees award where plaintiff failed to put forth evidence that defendants acted with discriminatory purpose to establish an equal protection claim
• denying motion for fees where movant’s brief was “long on hyperbole and personal attacks and short on thoughtful analysis”
• finding a claim “clearly meritless” when there was no evidence of an essential element of the asserted claim
• requiring the clear and convincing standard to recover “all costs associated with an action”
• denying cross-motions for sanctions “because both parties -9- No. 23-1476, Nichols v. Dwyer, et al. contributed to the ‘disharmony in the proceedings’” (quoting Oglala Sioux Tribe of Pine Ridge Indian Rsrv. v. United States, 15 Cl. Ct. 615 (1988))
• motions for sanctions by both parties denied because both parties contributed to “disharmony in the proceedings” and filed briefs that “were long on hyperbole and personal attacks”

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