Party awarded fees, costs for successful motion
Where a company suing its former sales agent for unlawful competition showed that agent spoliated evidence, it was awarded its fees and costs incurred in preparing the spoliation motion. Its fee...
View ArticlePlaintiff sanctioned for ‘multiple’ Rule 11 violations
Where the plaintiff failed to support any of her claims with evidence, no reasonable person would believe the claims were factually justified and it appeared the suit was filed for an improper purpose,...
View ArticleSanctions levied for Rule 11 violations
The plaintiff in a long-running dispute over the management and distribution of the assets of a bankrupt partnership must pay the defendant’s legal fees, a federal judge has ruled. In this case, the...
View ArticleSanctions award of attorneys’ fees upheld
Even though a party didn’t have to pay her own attorneys’ fees, she had incurred reasonable expenses that could be awarded as sanctions, the Virginia Supreme Court has held in a matter of first...
View ArticleSanctions levied after discovery violations
A party’s discovery delays resulted in a default judgment and an award of more than $80,000 in compensatory and punitive damages to its opponent. On appeal, the sanctioned party argued that the harsh...
View ArticleLawyer got due process in sanctions hearing
Where a sanctioned lawyer argued that he was not given sufficient notice of the charges and penalties, but the complaint provided detailed and specific allegations of misconduct, identified the...
View ArticlePro se plaintiff sanctioned for filing frivolous motions
Where the court denied a man’s four motions as baseless, and warned him against filing further similar motions, and the man then filed more similar motions, he was ordered to pay $2,660 to the...
View ArticleSanctions denied despite late document production
Although a party in a complex construction case made a late production of more than 79,000 documents, requiring the re-deposition of five witnesses, sanctions were denied. The party acted promptly by...
View ArticleNo sanctions for failure to preserve evidence
Where defendants argued a woman who was injured in an automobile accident should be sanctioned because her vehicle event data recorder, or EDR, had been destroyed, but the record showed the woman’s...
View ArticleDestruction of relevant evidence results in dismissal
Where an employee spoliated electronically stored information, and the missing evidence could not be restored or replaced by the parties’ good-faith effort, the employee was denied leave to amend his...
View ArticleAttorneys’ fees awarded to City of Norfolk
Where the court previously dismissed a lawsuit for lack of standing, the plaintiffs’ motion to reconsider was denied because it did not show the court misapplied the facts or the law. The City of...
View ArticleAdverse inference instruction ordered in accident suit
Where a man suing for his alleged injuries in an automobile accident deleted text messages and emails on his second cell phone covering a period of two years, and discarded the phone before defendants...
View ArticleDefendants sanctioned for destruction of evidence
Where a truck driver sued for his alleged negligence in a multi-car accident deleted data on his personal tablet mounted on his windshield, gave the tablet to his girlfriend and misrepresented...
View ArticleSubpoenas to non-parties result in sanctions
Where a party served multiple subpoenas on a non-party that were overbroad, unduly burdensome, or which sought irrelevant or privileged information, the subpoenas were quashed and the non-parties were...
View ArticleDefendant sanctioned for failure to appear at depo
Where man failed to appear for his court-ordered deposition, certain factual allegations were deemed established for purposes of this action as a sanction. Background Bogdan Bindea has filed a motion...
View ArticlePre-filing injunction entered against ‘serial filer’
Where a man filed eight lawsuits centered around alleged financial losses, each of which was dismissed; recently started adding judicial officers to his latest lawsuits and continued his conduct even...
View ArticleDiscovery violations end in default judgment
Where defendants failed to respond to discovery propounded in a case alleging they violated federal and state consumer protection laws, even after they were ordered to do so by the court, default...
View ArticleTrademark attorney sanctioned by USPTO
Where a trademark attorney failed to act diligently and promptly in representing her clients before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, or USPTO, she was issued a public reprimand and placed...
View ArticleDefendants sanctioned for repeated discovery violations
Where defendants sued for making telemarketing calls repeatedly violated their discovery obligations, the district court did not err in striking their defenses and then entering judgment in the...
View ArticleEx-attorney sanctioned for ‘inexcusable’ conduct
Where a former attorney acting pro se sent dozens of harassing email messages to defendants, their counsel and others, and acted to increase the costs and burdens of litigation, the defendants were...
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