In an Aug. 9 opinion, U.S. District Judge Terry Means of Fort Worth vacated $35,000 in sanctions he had imposed sua sponte against four firms and seven lawyers, doing away with his previous finding that they had engaged in “attorney misconduct” while litigating a patent case.
On April 1, Means had issued a 56-page opinion and order in Highmark Inc. v. Allcare Health Management Systems Inc. in which he awarded attorneys’ fees to a company because the opposing party “continued pursuit of allegations shown to be meritless.”
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