A federal bankruptcy court judge has ordered a lawyer to pay the attorney fees incurred by his adversaries as they fought his motion to hear an otherwise time-barred complaint on equitable estoppel grounds. Attorney Shawn T. Nash's adversary had called the motion "frivolous" and part of a "pattern of vexatious activity" that has kept the case, In Re: R&J Ventures, Inc. , going three years longer than Nash's opponents say is necessary.
December 13, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
A federal bankruptcy court judge has ordered a lawyer to pay the attorney fees incurred by his adversaries as they fought his motion to hear an otherwise time-barred complaint on equitable estoppel grounds.
Chief Judge Stephen D. Gerling of the Northern District of New York Bankruptcy Court said he was “at a loss to find a reasonable basis” for attorney Shawn T. Nash’s motion in December 2006 to file an amended complaint based on equitable estoppel.
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