Legal Opinion
Lamboy-Ortiz v. Ortiz-Velez
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 17, 2010No. 09-1640PublishedCited by 109 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.
This appeal involves an award of close to $130,000 in attorney’s fees against unsuccessful civil rights plaintiffs and over $60,000 in sanctions against plaintiffs’ counsel personally. Plaintiffs, who survived various dispositive motions and proceeded to a jury trial on their claims, argue that their lawsuit was not so unfounded or unreasonable as to justify an award of fees to the defendant in a civil rights lawsuit. We agree and therefore vacate the fee award.
We conclude, however, that the district court did not abuse its discretion in imposing sanctions on plaintiffs’…
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