Re a legal dispute: Is there a concise term for the practice of...

[LAS14]

... causing the opposing party to spend lots of time and money on red herring, blatantly frivolous issues? The object being to make it too expensive for an ordinary individual to wage a court battle? E.g., the moutains of discovery boxes in Dark Waters. In our case we were granted a summary judgment in our favor.

Ideally a term that could be inserted in this sentence: They engaged in xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx tactics.

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[hlthe2b]

1. Some states allow them to respond by filing "Malicious Prosecution" lawsuits...

If the pattern is really frivolous and meritless, the aggrieved party can prevail.

[LAS14]

2. Thanks. I edited the post to include the following.

In our case we were granted a summary judgment in our favor.

[Atticus]

4. If the lawsuit itself is arguably appropriate but you are being "lawyered to death" with

unreasonable discovery requests, dilatory compliance with your legitimate discovery requests and multiple motions interposed in bad faith, research the tort of "abuse of process".

[jberryhill]

5. "They engaged in dilatory tactics" is the phrase you are looking for

https://law.jrank.org/pages/6130/Dilatory.html

Dilatory

Tending to cause a delay in judicial proceedings.

Dilatory tactics are methods by which the rules of procedure are used by a party to a lawsuit in an abusive manner to delay the progress of the proceedings. For example, when numerous motions brought before a court for postponement are baseless, time is wasted because the court must stop the course of ongoing proceedings to examine whether there is any merit to the motions. The party in whose interests the motion is brought uses this tactic to gain time to enhance his or her position, or to postpone an action by a court as long as possible to minimize the impact of a decree rendered against him or her. A party found to engage in dilatory tactics may be held in CONTEMPT of court.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Barratry is an old term for vexatious litigation.