Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. v. Haeger
| Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. v. Haeger | |
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| Decided April 18, 2017 | |
| Full case name | Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. v. Haeger |
| Docket no. | 15-1406 |
| Citations | 581 U.S. ___ (more) |
| Holding | |
| When a court sanctions 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 bad-faith misconduct. | |
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| Case opinion | |
| Majority | Kagan, joined by unanimous |
| Gorsuch took no part in the consideration or decision of the case. | |
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. v. Haeger, 581 U.S. ___ (2017), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that when a court sanctions 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 bad-faith misconduct.