United States Seventh Circuit

Order granting plaintiff's motion for fees and costs resulting from defendant's sanction for filing a frivolous appeal is vacated and dismissed; denial of a permissive award of fees is an appropriate sanction where the award is not merely excessive, but so exorbitant as to constitute an abuse of the process of the court asked to make the award.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/04/2005
• Published 11/04/2005

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, ROVNER, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Rita M. Alliss Powers, Greenberg Traurig, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Glen L. Udell, Frank Adams, Brown, Udell & Pomerantz, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.