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GILMORE v. FINN

Record Nos. 990779, 990796.

527 S.E.2d 426 (2000)

259 Va. 448

James S. GILMORE, III, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, et al. v. Michele P. FINN. Michele P. Finn v. James S. Gilmore, III, et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

March 3, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anne Marie Whittemore (Mark L. Earley, Attorney General; William H. Hurd, Solicitor General; Guy W. Horsley, Jr., Senior Assistant Attorney General; McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe, Alexandria, on briefs), for James S. Gilmore, III.

Gregory L. Murphy, Alexandria (M. Garey Eakes, Arlington; Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease, Alexandria; Eakes & Thompson, Arlington, on brief), for Michelle P. Finn.

Present: CARRICO, C.J., COMPTON, LACY, HASSELL, KEENAN, KOONTZ, and KINSER, JJ.

KOONTZ, Justice.

In these appeals, we consider whether the trial court erred in awarding sanctions pursuant to Code § 8.01-271.1, limited to the actual attorney's fees and costs incurred by the opposing party, against the Governor and the Commonwealth (hereafter collectively, the Governor) for filing a lawsuit that allegedly was neither "well grounded in fact [nor] warranted by existing law or a good faith argument for the extension, modification, or reversal...

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