I'm not a lawyer nor do I wish to get into a pissing contest with anyone here but it's quite possible that the judge was following the law and basing his legal opinion and the assessment of legal fees on some language that recognized this suite as unsubstantiated..........
I’d sure like to see the precedent that the judge used to make the Marine’s family pay the court costs of the person who appealed.
I keep hearing that that’s one of the big ways we could cut down on frivolous lawsuits is if the loser who filed suit pays the winner’s court costs for defending themselves, so I don’t believe for a minute that this is common practice.