Legal Opinion
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. v. Haeger
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 18, 2017No. 15–1406PublishedCited by 710 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Kagan
In this case, we consider a federal court's inherent authority to sanction a *1184 litigant for bad-faith conduct by ordering it to pay the other side's legal fees. We hold that such an order is limited to the fees the innocent party incurred solely because of the misconduct-or put another way, to the fees that party would not have incurred but for the bad faith. A district court has broad discretion to calculate fee awards under that standard. But because the court here granted legal fees beyond those resulting from the litigation misconduct, its award cannot stand.
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Respondents Leroy, Donna,…
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