Cook v. Carlson

Following the entry of a final judgment in a civil action that Cook had commenced in the Superior Court, Cook filed a motion to vacate the judgment. A judge in the Superior Court denied the motion, concluding that it was “wholly insubstantial and frivolous.” The judge further found that Cook’s motion was part of a “pattern of frivolous post-judgment filings [that had] been an abuse of court proceedings” and “a source of costly, vexatious and persistent harm to the defendants and their counsel.” So finding, the judge ordered Cook to pay $500 in costs to each defendant who had filed an…