A federal judge has ordered a Pennsylvania doctor and her husband to pay Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. $1.87 million in fee sanctions and counterclaim damages in a discrimination lawsuit that was deemed to have been lodged in bad faith.
In a June 5 order, U.S. District Judge Susan Wigenton, sitting in Newark, directed the doctor, Afoluso Adesanya, to pay Novartis $457,040 in counsel fees and costs for defending the lawsuit, and her husband, Adenekan Hezekiah Adesanya, to pay another $23,714 for helping his wife pursue what the judge said was a baseless lawsuit.
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