Surber v. Surber’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “A frivolous appeal is “one presenting no justiciable question and so readily recognizable as devoid of merit on face of record that there is little prospect that it can ever succeed.” (Citation omitted.) To avoid the penalty “the questions raised on appeal must be at least fairly debatable.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Schnitker v. Schnitker