Legal Opinion
Synanon Foundation, Inc. v. Bernstein
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided November 4, 1986No. 84-1635PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MACK, Associate Judge:
This appeal, we hope, marks the end of a carefully orchestrated attempt to subvert the integrity of the judicial process. It comes to us from the award of $585,000 in attorneys’ fees against Synanon Foundation for its bad faith litigation tactics. In an earlier appeal, Synanon Foundation v. Bernstein, 503 A.2d 1254 (D.C.1986) (Synanon I), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 107 S.Ct. 69, 93 L.Ed.2d 26 (1986), we upheld the pretrial dismissal of Synanon’s complaint due to its perpetration of a massive fraud upon the court. There, we described Synanon’s temporarily successful attempt…
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