ORLANDO RESIDENCE, LTD. v. GP CREDIT CO., LLC

Nos. 07-4050, 08-1044, 07-4051.

553 F.3d 550 (2009)

ORLANDO RESIDENCE, LTD., Plaintiff-Appellee/Cross-Appellant, v. GP CREDIT CO., LLC, et al., Defendants-Appellants, Cross-Appellees. Susan B. Nelson, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Orlando Residence, Ltd., et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 22, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene N. Bulso, Jr., Attorney (argued), Leader, Bulso & Nolan, PLC, Nashville, TN, for Plaintiffs-Appellees/Cross-Appellants.

Gary A. Ahrens, Attorney (argued), Michael Best & Friedrich, Milwaukee, WI, for Defendants-Appellants, Cross-Appellees.

Before POSNER, KANNE, and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

For 22 years these parties and their predecessors have been litigating, in numerous lawsuits in different courts, a dispute over a piece of property in Nashville. We were told at argument without contradiction that the parties have expended $3 million in legal fees, a figure that exceeds any reasonable estimate of the amount in controversy. Yet such behavior need not be irrational or a product of spite or even of bad legal advice. A rational...

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