Boyce v. Pruitt

By Judge Clifford R. Weckstein

*591[T]he doors of this courthouse are open to good faith litigation, but abuse of the judicial process, as in this case, will not be tolerated.

Snyder v. Internal Revenue Serv., 596 F. Supp. 240, 252 (N.D. Ind. 1984) (paraphrasing Granzow v. Commissioner, 739 F.2d 265, 269-70 (7th Cir. 1984)) (applying Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. “Rule 11 ... andVa. Code § 8.01-271.1 are similar in the respects material here.” Oxenham v. Johnson, 241 Va. 281, 286, n. 4, 402 S.E.2d 1 (1991)).

This suit was legally dead on arrival at the courthouse. It was “not just…