This article provides a brief overview of misconduct that generally qualifies as vexatious litigation and provides some pointers for lawyers both in preventing such an outcome and in protecting a ...
(CN) - An order declaring a California attorney and her son "vexatious litigants" in a dispute over a family trust is too broad and restrictive, the 9th Circuit ruled Monday. The federal appeals court ...
The term ‘vexatious litigant’ lacks a formal or statutory definition. In civil proceedings, a vexatious litigant can be one who obsessively brings repeated claims, submits numerous applications and ...
A Florida appeals court on Wednesday upheld a lower court’s decision to label a pro se plaintiff a “vexatious litigant” after tracking dozens of failed lawsuits he filed over a seven-year span. The ...
The mighty Trinity Broadcasting Network’s prodigious legal maneuvering against Brittany Crouch Koper — granddaughter of founders Jan and Paul Crouch — and her husband has drawn a sharp rebuke from a ...
Harassing someone for decades and fighting their restraining orders for years doesn't necessarily make a person a vexatious litigant. A California appellate court reached that conclusion Wednesday in ...
Colorful federal judge David O. Carter threatened to brand the mighty Trinity Broadcasting Network a “vexatious litigant” and forbid it from filing more lawsuits against the granddaughter of Trinity’s ...
San Diego Superior Court is the second largest court in California and one of the hardest hit in terms of budget cuts. State court officials say civil caseloads for judges have doubled (even though ...
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- A woman who has already been banned from filing frivolous lawsuits in several state and federal courts is challenging a new Idaho law designed to staunch so-called vexatious ...
Before PROST, DYK, and WALLACH. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Summary: The grant or denial of attorney fees requires consideration of a party’s ...
Mark Bosworth discusses the impacts of vexatious litigants on the judicial process and those parties in opposition to a vexatious litigant before moving to consider the options available to an ...