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No Sanctions for Meritless Motion to Strike

Loaded on Aug. 15, 2008

Filed under: Civil Procedure, Frivolous Litigation, Sanctions. Location: New York.

The pro se plaintiff should not be sanctioned for filing a meritless motion to strike. The motion was obviously modeled after a sample Rule 12(f) motion and appeared to be a misguided attempt to respond to the defendants' answers in the appropriate legal fashion. Plaintiff has not filed numerous prior ...

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