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WESCO INS. CO. v. RODERICK LINTON BELFANCE, LLP

No. 21-3479.

39 F.4th 326 (2022)

WESCO INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. RODERICK LINTON BELFANCE, LLP, et al., Defendants, Jason D. Wallace; Daniel R. Bache, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: July 1, 2022.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Peter Pattakos , THE PATTAKOS LAW FIRM LLC, Fairlawn, Ohio, for Appellants. Samuel R. Stalker , COZEN O'CONNOR, Chicago, Illinois, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Peter Pattakos , Rachel Hazelet , THE PATTAKOS LAW FIRM LLC, Fairlawn, Ohio, for Appellants. Samuel R. Stalker , COZEN O'CONNOR, Chicago, Illinois, for Appellee.

Before: COLE, LARSEN, and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

If a court compels a lawyer to pay a defendant's attorney's fees because the lawyer filed a frivolous complaint or litigated a case for an improper purpose, would the average attorney describe this fees award as a "sanction"? This case raises that interpretive question. And we have a large body of legal sources...

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