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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many jurisdictions have mechanisms to block self-represented filings by "vexatious litigants"—people who file many unfounded lawsuits. California, for instance, provides that if someone has lost five ...

A Texas appeals court has upheld a trial court's order declaring law school graduate Kristofer Kastner a vexatious litigant, after he repeatedly sued two lawyers and a firm who represented him in a ...

Civil Practice Note 7, entitled “Vexatious Application/Proceeding Show Cause Procedure” (CPN 7), is a useful tool to manage hopeless litigation quickly and ...

A Florida appeals court on Wednesday upheld a lower court’s decision to label a pro se plaintiff a “vexatious litigant” after ...

Walker v. Health Int’l Corp., No. 2015-1676, 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 246 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 6, 2017) (Before Reyna, Hughes, and Stoll, J.) (Opinion for the court, Reyna ...

The Ninth Circuit opinion is one of the rare opinions that I can reproduce in full (citations omitted). Attorney Donald W. MacPherson appeals the Tax Court's imposition of sanctions in two cases in ...

MANHATTAN (CN) – After more than half a decade of bitter litigation with Republican kingmaker Sheldon Adelson, the National Jewish Democratic Council will finally have a sweet and happy new year. On ...

A lawyer previously suspended from practising after being deemed incompetent has now been barred from starting or continuing proceedings in Manitoba's appeals court without permission from a judge, ...