{"id":5223,"date":"2017-12-06T16:39:07","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T21:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=5223"},"modified":"2017-12-06T16:39:07","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T21:39:07","slug":"counsel-fees-imposed-on-obdurate-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=5223","title":{"rendered":"Counsel Fees Imposed on Obdurate Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Counsel fees of $25,000 were properly imposed under 42 Pa.C.S. \u00a7 2503(7) and (8) on a party as sanctions for dilatory, obdurate, and vexatious conduct in continuing to pursue matters that were without merit and were previously decided.\u00a0 <em>Mumma Estate<\/em>, 7 Fid.Rep.3d 323 (Cumberland Co. O.C. 2017), appeal quashed, <a href=\"https:\/\/ujsportal.pacourts.us\/DocketSheets\/AppellateCourtReport.ashx?docketNumber=319+MDA+2017\">319 MDA 2017<\/a> (Pa. Super. 10\/2\/2017).<\/p>\n<p>(For previous decisions involving this same party, see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=3272\">4 Fid. Rep. 3d 384<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=4296\">6 Fid.Rep.3d 352<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Counsel fees of $25,000 were properly imposed under 42 Pa.C.S. \u00a7 2503(7) and (8) on a party as sanctions for dilatory, obdurate, and vexatious conduct in continuing to pursue matters that were without merit and were previously decided.\u00a0 Mumma Estate, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=5223\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[244,300],"class_list":["post-5223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-42-pa-c-s-2503","tag-counsel-fees-and-costs","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5224,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223\/revisions\/5224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}