{"id":4657,"date":"2011-12-15T23:56:17","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T05:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=4657"},"modified":"2011-12-15T23:56:17","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T05:56:17","slug":"why-isnt-this-a-frivolous-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=4657","title":{"rendered":"Why isn&#8217;t this a frivolous appeal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m guessing the question &#8220;Why isn&#8217;t this a frivolous appeal?&#8221; ranks pretty high on the list of things lawyers do not\u00a0want to be asked by a judge during oral argument.\u00a0 Nevertheless, that was basically what one advocate had to\u00a0address when Judge Moore inquired whether his cross-appeal for attorneys fees was frivolous: [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/whyisntthisfrivolous.mp3\">Listen<\/a>] and [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/sanction.mp3\">Listen<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The advocate would go on to explain his rationale for bringing the\u00a0cross-appeal and the court moved on to discuss\u00a0other issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m guessing the question &#8220;Why isn&#8217;t this a frivolous appeal?&#8221; ranks pretty high on the list of things lawyers do not\u00a0want to be asked by a judge during oral argument.\u00a0 Nevertheless, that was basically what one advocate had to\u00a0address when Judge Moore inquired whether his cross-appeal for attorneys fees was frivolous: [Listen] and [Listen]. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4657"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4666,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4657\/revisions\/4666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}