Legal Opinion
Fronk v. Fowler
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 25, 2010No. SJC-10467PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCordy, J.
This is a consolidated appeal from the separate orders of a single justice of the Appeals Court and of a full panel of the Appeals Court concerning the award of attorney’s fees and litigation costs to the defendants. After a jury-waived trial, a Superior Court judge granted the defendants’ motion for fees and costs under G. L. c. 231, § 6F, finding that “substantially all, if not all, of the plámtiffs’ claims were wholly insubstantial, frivolous, and not advanced in good faith.” A single justice of the Appeals Court vacated the award. We granted the defendants’ application for direct…
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