Rule 11 motion

An important event in A Civil Action is the rule 11 motion filed by the defendants - something we'll be talking about next week. We talked last week about frivolous lawsuits and what mechanisms were already in place to sort many of them out. Anyway, here's an example of Rule 11 in action against a "birther" who has filed multiple lawsuits alleging that President Obama was not born in the US. The link is to a Federal Judge's order, based on Rule 11, fining her $10,000 for continuing to press her claim despite having been ordered to desist.