DeKalb County v. Adams

Because I believe that DeKalb County’s conduct, as identified in the trial court’s order, justified an award of attorney fees, I must respectfully dissent. In a special concurrence in DeKalb County v. Adams,17 I took exception with the majority’s denial of the inmates’ motion for penalties for frivolous appeal, stating that I would grant *205the motion for penalties “as there is no reasonable basis for [DeKalb County] to believe that they could deprive the trial court of jurisdiction to enforce its contempt order by ‘running out the clock’ on the settlement agreement.” In short, I believed that…