In Re: Tutu Wells Contamination Litigation. Esso Standard Oil S.A. Ltd. Esso Virgin Islands, Inc. Esso Standard Oil Co. (Puerto Rico), in No. 96-7385, Goldman, Antonetti & Cordova Francis Torres, Esquire Jose Cepeda, Esquire, in No. 96-7386, Eugenio C. Romero, an Attorney at Law, in No. 96-7387, L'h

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• affirming a sanctions award imposed under the trial court's inherent powers that included attorney's fees incurred in the sanctions proceedings
• affirming inclusion of the costs arising from sanctions proceedings under either an inherent authority or rules-based analysis
• \[P]arties who know that the likelihood of facing a sanction[s] proceeding [is] low may engage in sanctionable conduct more often.\
• “[Pjarties who know that the likelihood of facing a sanctions] proceeding [is] low may engage in sanctionable conduct more often.”
• “[P]arties who know that the likelihood of facing a sanction[s] proceeding [is] low may engage in sanctionable conduct more often.”
• overruled on other grounds by Comuso v. Nat’l R.R. Passenger Corp., 267 F.3d 331, 338–39 (3d Cir. 2001

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