GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER CO. v. HAEGER

No. 15-1406.

137 S.Ct. 1178 (2017)

581 U.S. 101

GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY, Petitioner, v. Leroy HAEGER, et al.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 18, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pierre H. Bergeron , for petitioner.

John J. Egbert , Phoenix, AZ, for respondents.

Pierre. H. Bergeron , Gonzalo C. Martinez , Lauren S. Kuley , Colter L. Paulson , Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP, Washington, DC, for petitioner.

John J. Egbert , Jennings, Strouss & Salmon, P.L.C., Phoenix, AZ, David L. Kurtz , The Kurtz Law Firm, Scottsdale, AZ, for respondents.


In this case, we consider a federal court's inherent authority to sanction a litigant for bad-faith conduct by ordering it to pay the other side's legal fees. We hold that such an order is limited to the fees the innocent party incurred solely because...

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