Why isn't the court sanctioning Dad and the kids for wasting its time?

Raised in a $1.5 million Barrington Hills, Ill., home by their attorney father, two grown children have spent the last two years pursuing a unique lawsuit against their mom for "bad mothering" that alleges damages caused when she failed to buy toys for one and sent another a birthday card he didn’t like. 

In 2009, the children, represented by three attorneys including their father, Steven A. Miner, sued their mother, Kimberly Garrity. Steven II, now 23, and his sister Kathryn, now 20, sought more than $50,000 for "emotional distress." 

Among the exhibits filed in the case is a birthday card Garrity sent her son, who in his lawsuit sought damages because the card was "inappropriate" and failed to include cash or a check. He also alleged she failed to send a card for years or, while he was in college, care packages.

What I want to know is why didn't the trial court bitch slap these two morons, and their attorneys, including their lawyer-father.  Evidently, Daddy has money to burn but you know what?  The court does not have the resources to waste on foolishness like this.  As an attorney, I am hard pressed to identify their cause of action - you know, you can't simply trip nancily into court and say, "I wanna sue someone!" - and it looks as if the complaint is for intentional/negligent infliction of emotional distress.

Emotional distress?  And here I tell my kids, whenever they bitch and moan, work it out in therapy when you're an adult.  Case in point: last night, my son asked if he could go to a public school when it was time for him to go to high school. Answer: unless we can't afford Catholic school - no. Children can make their decision regarding college because then they are adults - but I also have the decision to make as to whether I want to subsidize that education. Or throw some gelt towards anything they want to do in life.

Let me guess - these kids are still living in Daddy's home and since they are 20 and 23, and the case has been going on since 2009, Daddy was just chomping at the bit to file this for them when the youngest turned 18 as a sort of "sloppy seconds" to his divorce.  Evidently, he felt he just didn't give it to the bitch enough during that.

Disbar Dad's ass.  And make those little pricks pay court and attorney fees.