United States Sixth Circuit

District court order imposing costs and attorney fees against plaintiffs for maintaining frivolous discrimination claims after those claims had become groundless is affirmed in part where the plaintiffs' claims were frivolous and an attorney engaged in sanctionable conduct, but reversed where the district court erred in holding the plaintiffs and their attorney jointly and severally liable for the attorney's fees.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/22/2009
• Published 01/22/2009

Judges

• Before CLAY, GILMAN, and ROGERS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Merrie M. Frost, Cleveland, Ohio, for Appellants.   Charles E. Hannan, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office, Cleveland, Ohio, for Appellees.   ON BRIEF:  Merrie M. Frost, Cleveland, Ohio, for Appellants.   Charles E. Hannan, David G. Lambert, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office, Cleveland, Ohio, for Appellees.  Richard Randolph Renner, Tate & Renner, Dover, Ohio, for Amicus Curiae.