* Frivolous litigation

* Frivolous litigation

* IRS article on Frivolous Tax Arguments

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Cocteau soon became known in Bohemian artistic circles as The Frivolous Prince, the title of a volume he published at twenty-two.

* The Archeology of the Frivolous: Reading Condillac, trans.

A second work, A Reply to the Frivolous and Impertinent Answer of RB, was published in the spring of 1643.

* A Reply to the Frivolous and Impertinent answer of R. B.

He is noted especially for his work in the erotic genre, with films such as Caligula, Così fan tutte ( released under the English title All Ladies Do It ), Paprika, Monella ( Frivolous Lola ) and Trasgredire.

" Geek Fun Isn't Frivolous ; Alien Swarms of Thundering, Flashing Games Hit Town This Week.

This response provoked Hall to write another reply: A Defence of the Humble Remonstrance, against the Frivolous and false Expectations of Smectymnuus.

As part of this notice procedure, there may have to be several notices, first a notice giving class members the opportunity to opt out of the class, i. e. if individuals wish to proceed with their own litigation they are entitled to do so, only to the extent that they give timely notice to the class counsel or the court that they are opting out.

In addition, in some circumstances, arbitration and other ADR processes may become as expensive as litigation or more so.

While colloquially, a person may term a law suit to be frivolous if he or she personally finds a claim to be absurd, in legal usage " frivolous litigation " consists of a claim or defense that is presented where the party ( or the party's legal counsel ) had reason to know that the claim or defense was manifestly insufficient or futile.

Congress has enacted section 1912 of title 28 of the United States Code providing that in the United States Supreme Court and in the various courts of appeals where litigation by the losing party has caused damage to the prevailing party, the court may impose a requirement that the losing party pay the prevailing party for those damages.

In the hypothetical example, this would assist the litigation process, because for example, if the injured person states that the driver ought to have alerted the third party, the driver may be aware that the law imposes no such duty, and can issue a motion ( or application ) to the court to have that part of the claim dismissed.

The adjuster must obtain legal counsel for the insured ( either inside " house " counsel or outside " panel " counsel ), monitor litigation that may take years to complete, and appear in person or over the telephone with settlement authority at a mandatory settlement conference when requested by the judge.

This can be particularly important where foreseeable liabilities may include future, unquantified damage awards such as those that could arise from litigation over defective products, employee benefits or terminations, or environmental damage.

Although professions enjoy high status and public prestige, not all professionals earn high salaries, and even within specific professions there exist significant inequalities of compensation ; for example, a trial lawyer specializing in tort litigation on a contingent-fee basis may earn several times what a prosecutor or public defender earns.

Tax law specialists are often employed in consultative roles, and may also be involved in litigation.

Filing vexatious litigation is considered an abuse of the judicial process and may result in sanctions against the offender.

In United States law, ripeness refers to the readiness of a case for litigation ; " a claim is not ripe for adjudication if it rests upon contingent future events that may not occur as anticipated, or indeed may not occur at all.

For example, in some states, the litigation process may be drastically accelerated if the plaintiff is dying from a terminal illness.

Sometimes, after a number of witnesses have been deposed, the parties will have enough information that they can reasonably predict the outcome of a prospective trial, and may decide to arrive at a compromise settlement, thus avoiding trial and preventing additional costs of litigation.

State courts, which try 98 % of litigation, may have different names and organization ; trial courts may be called " courts of common plea ", appellate courts " superior courts " or " commonwealth courts ".

Urban forensic entomology typically concerns pests infestations in buildings gardens or that may be the basis of litigation between private parties and service providers such as landlords or exterminators.

In electronic discovery in civil litigation, documents are often produced between parties on CD or DVD because the cost of production and delivery of documents on disk is significantly less than production and delivery of paper – and because the electronic versions may allow keyword searching or examination of metadata.

Once dissolution proceedings commence, either party may seek interim or pendente lite support during the course of the litigation.

In the United States, plaintiffs and defendants that lack financial resources for litigation or other legal expenses may be able to obtain legal financing.

Other times, litigants may simply need money to pay for the costs of litigation and attorneys ' fees.

But the form in which the claim must be stated need not be different from what the State exacts in the enforcement of like obligations created by it, so long as a requirement does not add to, or diminish, the right as defined by Federal law, nor burden the realization of this right in the actualities of litigation ''.

`` It is a duty '', said Hough, `` not to let pass this opportunity of protesting against the methods of taking and printing testimony in Equity, current in this circuit ( and probably others ), excused if not justified by the rules of the Supreme Court, especially to be found in patent causes, and flagrantly exemplified in this litigation.

In this tangle of conflicting claims, the patent-sharing scheme adopted by the A.L.A.M. at its founding proved to be the best device for avoiding or mitigating the burdens of incessant litigation.

The prevailing view in the industry was summed up in 1912 by a group of auto makers who told a Senate committee: `` The exceedingly unsatisfactory and uselessly expensive conditions, including delays surrounding legal disputes, particularly in patent litigation, are items of industrial burden which must be written large in figures of many millions of dollars of industrial waste ''.

It will be recalled that in his summation for the A.L.A.M. before Judge Hough, Fish had condemned patent litigation as the curse of the American industrial community.

Abeyance can be used in cases where parties are interested in temporarily settling litigation while still holding the right to seek relief later if necessary.

On November 1, 2005, Germany enacted the “ Act on Model Case Proceedings in Disputes under Capital Markets Law ( Capital Markets Model Case Act )” allowing sample proceedings to be brought before the courts in litigation arising from mass capital markets transactions.

While the automatic stay is in place, most litigation against the debtor is stayed, or put on hold, until it can be resolved in bankruptcy court, or resumed in its original venue.

Not long after, in a move that would result in years of litigation, at the conclusion of which Bowie would be forced to pay Pitt compensation, the singer fired his manager, replacing him with Tony Defries.

This, in turn, has led to a growing corporate acquisition industry in Japan, as companies are no longer able to be easily " bailed out " by their banks, as well as rising derivative litigation by more independent shareholders.

Since 1902, Edison had also been notifying distributors and exhibitors that if they did not use Edison machines and films exclusively, they would be subject to litigation for supporting filmmaking that infringed Edison's patents.

# it counts the factors that connect or link the legal issues to the laws of potentially relevant states and applies the laws that have the greatest connection, e. g. the law of nationality ( lex patriae ) or domicile ( lex domicilii ) will define legal status and capacity, the law of the state in which land is situated ( lex situs ) will be applied to determine all questions of title, the law of the place where a transaction physically takes place or of the occurrence that gave rise to the litigation ( lex loci actus ) will often be the controlling law selected when the matter is substantive, but the proper law has become a more common choice.

Not only can such an undertaking be an exercise in futility, but this approach lacks even a minimal amount of precision such that parties might be able to predict outcomes and results during litigation.

Although she realized litigation had taken a toll on her health, Lee often quoted Ralph Waldo Emerson on the topic: " God will not have his work be made manifest by cowards.

Again in 2011 a public interest litigation petition caused the Madras High Court Bench to grant permission to villagers of Kodaioor village to conduct a rooster fight during Deepavali coinciding with a local temple festival from the claims that the " villagers ' religious sentiments would be hurt if the cockfight was not allowed ".