A bill to clarify the standards pertaining to unreasonable attorney delay and to expand the sanctions for such conduct and for other purposes.

Summary

Makes an attorney who, in Federal court, "engages in conduct unreasonably and primarily for the purpose of delaying or increasing the cost of the litigation" liable for "the excess costs, expenses and attorney's fees reasonably incurred because of such conduct" (currently, such an attorney who "so multiplies the proceedings in any case as to increase costs unreasonably and vexatiously" is liable for "such excess costs").

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 10 May 1979

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