adj. referring to a legal move in a lawsuit clearly intended merely to harass, delay
or embarrass the opposition. Frivolous acts can include filing the lawsuit itself,
a baseless motion for a legal ruling, an answer of a defendant to a complaint which
does not deny, contest, prove or controvert anything, or an appeal which contains
not a single arguable basis (by any stretch of the imagination) for the appeal.
A frivolous lawsuit, motion or appeal can result in a successful claim by the other
party for payment by the frivolous suer of their attorneys' fees for defending the
case. Judges are reluctant to find an action frivolous, based on the desire not
to discourage people from using the courts to resolve disputes.
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