subjective-bad-faith

Case	Title	Lower Court	Docketed	Status	Flags	Tags	Question Presented
25-1114	EscapeX IP, LLC v. Google LLC	Federal Circuit	2026-03-24	Pending	Response Waived	appellate-review attorney-sanctions patent-fee-awards rule-59-motion section-1927 subjective-bad-faith	1. The Ninth Circuit has long held that sanctions under 28 U.S.C. § 1927 "must be supported by a finding of subjective bad faith," and that bad faith …
23-404	Matthew Edwin Gronda, et al. v. Title Check, LLC	Sixth Circuit	2023-10-18	Denied	Response Waived	28-U.S.C-1927 28-usc-1927 attorney-sanctions first-legal-impression good-faith-argument legal-first-impression narrow-construction objective-recklessness subjective-bad-faith	I. May attorneys be sanctioned pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1927 for filing a complaint which raises a good faith and legally supportable issue of first im…
20-1153	Susan Elaine Devine v. Absolute Activist Value Master Fund Limited, et al.	Eleventh Circuit	2021-02-23	Denied	Response Waived	attorney-fees bad-faith civil-procedure costs-and-fees court-discretion inherent-authority judicial-power legal-costs objective-conduct procedural-standard subjective-bad-faith	Whether a court considering a motion for an award of costs and attorney's fees pursuant to the court's inherent authority must require the movant to p…