Legal Opinion
Wong v. Luu
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided July 15, 2015No. SJC 11789PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGants, C.J.
The issue presented in this case is the scope of a judge’s authority under the inherent powers of the court to order an attorney for a party to pay the other parties’ attorney’s fees as a sanction for the attorney’s misconduct where that sanction is not authorized by any statute or court rule, and where the attorney has not violated a court order or rule of procedure. We conclude that a judge may exercise the court’s inherent power to sanction an attorney with an assessment of attorney’s fees only if the attorney has engaged in misconduct that threatens the fair administration of justice and…
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