Sentences with phrase «frivolous appeal»

A "frivolous appeal" means making a legal request for a decision to be reconsidered or reviewed, without any valid or serious reason. Full definition
In that earlier ruling, the Seventh Circuit asked the parties to file additional memoranda concerning the legal services for which the United States must pay to defend frivolous appeals in tax - protest cases.
At best, your argument that these lawyers are geniuses is that they set up a frivolous appeal to get a mootness ruling that could be used to confuse the trial court in order to issue a ruling they are probably entitled to anyway.
He's likely to do what he would have done absent the frivolous appeal in the first instance.
At Crime and Federalism, Mike Cernovich gives us a textbook example of a frivolous appeal, courtesy of Judge Alex Kozinski of the 9th Circuit.
FN10 Defendants and their counsel shall show cause within 14 days why they should not be assessed double costs and attorney's fees for filing a frivolous appeal.
Seminal case setting forth the substantive and procedural guidelines for imposition of sanctions for a dilatory or frivolous appeal.
An Arizona appellate court upheld the award and, luckily for Flury, kindly declined to sanction him further for his frivolous appeal.
Is the likelihood of success high enough to conclude that it is not a frivolous appeal?
(By the way, the Ninth Circuit later imposed sanctions on the defendants for raising a frivolous appeal.)
Next, the court considered the MLS's request to sanction the Photographer for filing a frivolous appeal.
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