Legal Opinion

Woodard v. Dicks (In Re Dicks)

United States Bankruptcy Court, M.D. Florida

Decided March 16, 2004No. Bankruptcy No. 8:00-BK-02653-MGW, Adversary No. 8:04-AP-00069PublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION

MICHAEL G. WILLIAMSON, Bankruptcy Judge.

This Court has inherent authority to enjoin vexatious litigation by litigants who have settled on a course of conduct involving the repetitive filing of duplicative legal papers rearguing a position rejected a multitude of times by numerous trial and appellate courts, where such litigation causes needless expense to other parties, where the litigants have no objective, good-faith expectation of prevailing, and where the multiple filings place an unnecessary burden on the courts. Ray v. Lowder, Order Granting Injunctive Relief and…

2Cases cited18 opinions

  1. District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. FeldmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
  2. Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1924
  3. Allen v. McCurrySupreme Court of the United States · 1980
  4. Marrese v. American Academy of Orthopaedic SurgeonsSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
  5. Stoll v. GottliebSupreme Court of the United States · 1938

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