Patterson v. Aiken’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
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Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1927
Relies on Haines v. Kerner · Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · Snyder v. Internal Revenue Service · Mohammed v. Union Carbide Corp. · 611 F. Supp. 50 - Peth v. Breitzmann
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“Therefore, Rule 11 imposes upon both attorneys and pro se litigants the burden of investigating both the factual and legal bases for the claims they assert in papers addressed to the court, and of ascertaining that there is a reasonable basis for maintaining the action or position taken in the papers. The language of Rule 11 represents a change from the prior law, which was that the attorney or party need only satisfy the court that he had a subjective good faith belief that his position was justifiable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] man of Patterson's education, given a reasonable amount of time in a law library, could determine that once a judgment has been entered one cannot file another lawsuit to object to the conduct of the first.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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