{"id":136794,"date":"2025-11-12T13:20:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T21:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/11\/12\/sabotaging-a-settlement-judge-sanctions-defendants-18k-for-bad-faith-practices\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T13:20:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T21:20:42","slug":"sabotaging-a-settlement-judge-sanctions-defendants-18k-for-bad-faith-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/11\/12\/sabotaging-a-settlement-judge-sanctions-defendants-18k-for-bad-faith-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Sabotaging’ a Settlement: Judge Sanctions Defendants $18K for Bad-Faith Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Here, defendants took a decidedly puerile approach\u2014they chose to irritate and annoy the other side, rather than to invite engagement. They also impaired their credibility with this court,” wrote U.S. Magistrate Judge Young B. Kim of the Northern District of Illinois.<\/p>\n

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“Here, defendants took a decidedly puerile approach\u2014they chose to irritate and annoy the other side, rather than to invite engagement. They also impaired their credibility with this court,” wrote U.S. Magistrate Judge Young B. Kim of the Northern District of Illinois.<\/p>\n

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“Here, defendants took a decidedly puerile approach\u2014they chose to irritate and annoy the other side, rather than to invite engagement. They also impaired their credibility with this court,” wrote U.S. Magistrate Judge Young B. Kim of the Northern District of Illinois. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 “Here, defendants took a decidedly puerile approach\u2014they chose to irritate and annoy the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":136744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/legal-news-MqAkfA.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}