vexatious

Would a lawyer here care to comment on that?Once found a vexatious litigant, an entity can no longer file suit in court.

One can be branded a "vexatious litigant," although one has to keep at it for a while for that particular achievement.

If you smash my car and I sue you for $10,000 damages, and then I drop the case when I discover that you have no assets, is that vexatious litigation?

LOL, News Corp bemoaning that someone's actions might "lead to a less informed, more vexatious level of dialogue in our society".

In California, for example, all it takes to be found a vexatious litigant is to file five unsuccessful lawsuits in seven years [1].

They have a pretext to sue, which is not good enough to win, but is good enough to keep the case from being dismissed on summary judgment and to keep them from being ruled vexatious litigants.

If you claim that 20 different people collectively smashed your car window, charge them individually for full damages, and then only decide to charge the ones who have money, is it vexatious?

Oh, you mean cases of vexatious or malicious litigation, which are effectively extortion?

So not that we'll "discuss" it, but is there an article link or a blog post available that explains the perceived rationale behind this most vexatious and utterly inane misfeature?

Its not clear what role a common "controling entity" would have, for example, on the ability of affiliates, spv's and relatives/children to file or be found 'vexatious' etc.

What really crosses me about iTunes on OS X is that there seems to be no way to pry the media control keys loose from it, which I found perennially vexatious back when I still had an Apple laptop.

Seems to be someone who's got a good sense of humour and knows enough about the tech industry to produce satire -- you know, there are few things as vexatious as reading someone analyze comedy, so I'll stop here.

I would guess that the law takes this possibility into account, and the police involved probably should have rejected the woman's complaint as vexatious, if that was the entire basis of her complaint.

This had me in stitches:> Undermining the basic business model of professional content creators will lead to a less informed, more vexatious level of dialogue in our societyNewspeak indeed.

It should be grounds for classification as a vexatious litigant since it clearly indicates that they're not serious about following through with a lawsuit and are just running a shakedown operation.

There are certainly cases in which officers were mistaken, there are mitigating circumstances, or you can avoid punishment on a technicality, but I can't think of any instances in which authorities have been caught issuing vexatious fixed penalty notices.

My first seven years were spent primarily on the defense side, where I developed an intense frustration with insurance carriers who would settle meritless claims for nuisance value when the better long-term view would have been to fight against vexatious litigation as a matter of principle.