{"id":1365,"date":"2017-01-06T21:49:08","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T02:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=1365"},"modified":"2017-01-11T21:52:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T02:52:03","slug":"when-its-over-its-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=1365","title":{"rendered":"When it\u2019s Over, it&#8217;s Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>Walker v. Health International Corp.<\/em>, [2015-1676] (January 6, 2017), the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court\u2019s award of sanctions for vexatious actions in\u00a0continuing to litigate after the parties settled all claims, and further found the appeal to be frivolous, both as filed and as argued, and granted further sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>The district court dismissed all claims and found \u201cthat Plaintiff\u2019s actions have unnecessarily multiplied the proceedings at a time when the\u00a0underlying claims have admittedly been resolved.\u00a0 The district court entered final judgment awarding HSN $20,511.50 in attorneys\u2019 fees\u00a0because Walker\u2019s \u201clitigation conduct after entering into the Agreement was vexatious and had unnecessarily multiplied the proceedings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Applying the Tenth Circuit\u2019s test for the award of attorneys fees, where an award will be reversed only in circumstances which do not show\u00a0a reasonable ground for the conclusion that vexatiousness existed, the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court\u2019s award, finding ample support in the record\u00a0for the district court\u2019s conclusion of vexatiousness. \u00a0The Federal Circuit said that district court correctly concluded that there remained no legitimate reason to\u00a0continue litigation once the parties entered into a comprehensive settlement of all claims.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Circuit also examined appellant\u2019s conduct on appeal, noting that it continued to press frivolous arguments and raise new arguments in its Reply\u00a0amounting to baseless accusations against opposing counsel.\u00a0 The Federal Circuit concluded that the positions taken by Walker on appeal in the briefs and at oral argument were frivolous.\u00a0 Noting that it has \u201chas long disdained\u201d frivolous appeals, the Federal Circuit awarded an additional $51,801.88 in additional attorneys fees and double costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Walker v. Health International Corp., [2015-1676] (January 6, 2017), the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court\u2019s award of sanctions for vexatious actions in\u00a0continuing to litigate after the parties settled all claims, and further found the appeal to be frivolous, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=1365\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sanctons"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1366,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions\/1366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}