Walter G. Finch v. Hughes Aircraft Company

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• explaining that a claim is friv- olous and thus supports sanctions when the arguments are “contrary to established law and unsupported by a rea- soned, colorable argument for change in the law” (internal quotation omitted)
• finding an argument frivolous as argued when party failed to address the authority against his position, cited inapplicable authority, and seriously misrepresented the record below and the applicable law
• “[A]bsent exceptional circumstances, a party cannot raise on appeal legal issues not raised and considered in the trial forum.”
• “A trial court has discretion to dismiss a complaint which simply duplicates another pending related action.”
• “In the second type of frivolity, while genuinely appealable issues may exist, the appellant’s contentions in prosecuting the appeal are frivolous.”
• “An appeal hav- ing a small chance for success is not for that reason alone frivolous . . . and a questionable appeal may simply be due to the overzealousness or inexperience of counsel.”

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