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In its opinion regarding petitioner’s second U.S. District
Court lawsuit, the U.S. District Court stated that petitioner’s
lawsuits were a “frivolous and vexatious attempt to relitigate
adverse decisions reached in his earlier, unsuccessful lawsuits.”
The U.S. District Court sanctioned petitioner and ordered him to
pay the attorney’s fees of the defendants in that lawsuit as
well--this sanction totaled over $23,000. Additionally, because
the thousands of dollars of sanctions it imposed on petitioner in
the first U.S. District Court lawsuit and other related lawsuits
failed to deter petitioner, the U.S. District Court enjoined
petitioner from filing any civil action against Fleet and the
other named entities and individuals unless petitioner first
filed a bond with the U.S. District Court in the amount of
$25,000. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
affirmed, by unpublished opinion, the U.S. District Court’s
judgment and permanent injunction. Stewart v. Fleet Fin., supra.
Petitioner devoted his petition, his trial memorandum, the
trial, and his briefs in the case at bar to recounting, again,
the alleged wrongdoing by Fleet and other individuals whom he had
previously sued multiple times in State and Federal courts. In
the petition, at trial, and on brief petitioner raised frivolous
arguments and contentions which we conclude were interposed
primarily for delay. These arguments and contentions were
similar to those that were rejected repeatedly by State and
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