WorkForce West Virginia v. William E. Burns

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• finding bad faith standard was met “in light of the entire record and the expressions of the district court judge, who employed the very words of the statute”
• declining to remand “for an explicit finding of bad faith when it is clearly evident from the district court’s expressions and from the record as a whole, that the district court found, albeit implicitly, * * * conduct to be in bad faith”
• bad-faith requirement is “necessary to avoid chilling an attorney’s legitimate obligation to represent his client zealously”
• “[W]e conclude that before attorneys’ fees and costs may be taxed under [S]ection 1927, there must be a finding of willful bad faith on the part of the offending attorney.”
• After the defendant stipulated to finality of special master’s report, but filed forty pages of objections when the report was “unfavorable,” court found “bad faith” attempt to “completely distort the nature of the stipulation reached”

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