'Meritless' Suit Costs Attorney Over $107,000 in Legal Fees

A Buffalo lawyer who pushed a "meritless" housing discrimination claim through administrative channels and then federal trial and appellate courts has been ordered to pay $107,322 in attorney fees after a judge rejected her claims that if the case was so baseless it should have been tossed before defense costs soared into the triple figures.

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