To minimize frivolous requests, the state has restricted the circumstances for which people can seek orders of protection.

The Speaker may overrule a request for a division and maintain the original ruling; this power, however, is used only rarely, usually when members make frivolous requests for divisions in order to delay proceedings.

Besides, he mused, Mr. Scott wasn't in the habit of making frivolous requests.

American has charged that the pilots have been staging sickouts, taxiing slowly to waste fuel and filing frivolous requests for equipment maintenance.

The statute allows virtual strangers with no significant relation to the child to petition for visitation, forcing parents to incur legal costs to oppose frivolous requests in court.

The Department need not respond substantively to frivolous or repetitive requests for correction.

(The Speaker of the House of Commons may choose to overrule a frivolous request for a division, but the Lord Speaker does not have that power).

Prosecutors who have tried pro se cases, as these trials are called, say they are often forced to respond to frivolous requests and delaying tactics.

To keep frivolous requests at bay and avoid wasting staff time, Ms. Hirsch recommends requiring written notice.

"I hate to wake a guy outa a sound sleep wit' a like frivolous request."