15-1406_db8e.pdf

GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER CO. v. HAEGER ET AL. //SCOTUS 4/17/17
Held: When a federal court exercises its inherent authority to sanction bad-faith conduct by ordering a litigant to pay the other side’s legal fees, the award is limited to the fees the innocent party incurred solely because of the misconduct—or put another way, to the fees that party would not have incurred but for the bad faith.