​​​​​​​'Patently Frivolous' Appeal Brief Gets Atty 7th Circ. Sanctions

By Craig Clough (December 16, 2019, 10:16 PM EST) -- A panel of Seventh Circuit judges held Monday that an attorney who submitted an "incoherent" appellate brief with "utterly baseless factual assertions" should be sanctioned and ordered to pay attorney fees for consuming judicial resources in a discrimination suit levied by a former Mars warehouse worker....

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