Pacific Dunlop Holdings, Inc. v. Barosh
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
MIHM, District Judge.
This is an appeal from the district court’s award of $138,015.11 in legal fees and costs to Appellees under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11 and 28 U.S.C. § 1927. For the reasons stated below, we reverse.
I. FACTUAL BACKGROUND
In May 1984, the General Services Administration (“GSA”) awarded GNB Batteries (“GNB”) a three-year contract to supply batteries and related parts to GSA. In early 1987, GSA conducted an audit of the 1984 contract and found that GNB had failed to fully disclose to GSA the discounts GNB had offered to its commercial customers and had failed to grant…
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