January 22, 2020
The Seventh Circuit on Wednesday set the legal fees that an attorney must shell out to his adversaries as punishment for allowing a client to compose a "monstrosity of an appellate brief" on the lawyer's behalf.
December 16, 2019
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.
November 07, 2019
The Seventh Circuit on Thursday refused to revive a former Mars warehouse worker's discrimination suit, saying her appeal was a "shameful waste of judicial resources" and demanding her attorney explain why he shouldn't be sanctioned.