Legal Opinion
Keister v. PPL Corp.
District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania
Decided February 19, 2016No. 4:13¢-cv-00118PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
Matthew W. Brann, United States District Judge
Since the baseless nature of this action was revealed, the Court has spent upwards of one hundred and forty pages on its complete disposition — a troubling expenditure of judicial resources for a claim based in make-believe. By Memorandum dated December 29, 2015, the Court granted Defendant PPL Corporation’s Rule 11 Sanctions Motion and Defendant International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 1600’s Rule 54 Motion for Fees. As I noted then, both motions “spring from the filing of a baseless employment discrimination suit” by…
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