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Trial court's award of attorney's fees sanctions against petitioner's counsel affirmed, but sanctions against individual petitioner vacated in ouster proceeding.
The trial court awarded attorney's fees as sanctions against a petitioner and his attorney in this ouster proceeding, pursuant to Tennessee Code Annotated § 8-47-122(b), following a voluntary nonsuit of the petition. The trial court based its award of sanctions upon, inter alia, its determination that the petition's allegations were unsupported and that the petitioner's attorney had acted recklessly when filing the petition by purporting to represent individuals with whom he had neither met nor spoken. The petitioner and his counsel have appealed. Upon review, we affirm the trial court's award of sanctions against counsel, but we vacate the court's award of sanctions against the individual petitioner. We decline to award additional attorney's fees on appeal.
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Plaintiff brought claims against Knox County and the County Clerk based on allegedly discriminatory employment practices. The trial court determined that Plaintiff committed serious discovery violations and imposed as a sanction the exclusion of certain evidence. With this evidence excluded, the trial court granted summary judgment to the Defendants. Plaintiff appeals, challenging the discovery sanction, the trial court's conclusion under the Tennessee Human Rights Act that the continuing violation doctrine did not apply, the trial court's conclusion that the Clerk was not individually liable, and the award of attorney's fees against the Plaintiff and her attorney. We affirm.
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