In a blistering decision, a federal judge in Florida ordered a treasure hunting company to pay more than $1 million in attorney fees and sanctions for a “continuous, core campaign of bad faith, deception, and deflection.”

Represented by a team of lawyers from firms including Blank Rome and Beveridge & Diamond, the company, Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc., in 2007 recovered a vast sunken treasure–gold and silver worth more than $600 million—from a shipwreck near Portugal.