Gilmore v. Finn

In these appeals, we consider whether the trial court erred in awarding sanctions pursuant to Code § 8.01-271.1, limited to the actual attorney’s fees and costs incurred by the opposing party, against the Governor and the Commonwealth (hereafter collectively, the Governor) for filing a lawsuit that allegedly was neither “well grounded in fact [nor] warranted by existing law or a good faith argument for the extension, modification, or reversal of existing law.”

BACKGROUND

On March 9, 1995, Hugh Finn was injured in an automobile accident. As a result of the accident, he suffered severe brain…