Littler Mendelson has been ordered to pay sanctions in a case that it won on summary judgment in federal court in Philadelphia.
Last month, the firm won an employment discrimination suit that had been filed against its client, Fox Chase Cancer Center, but the motions it filed seeking attorney fees and sanctions against the plaintiff were so lacking that U.S. District Judge Stewart Dalzell of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania held that the motions were intended only to harass and imposed sanctions under Section 1927, which holds counsel liable for causing excessive costs, on the firm.
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