Ramon Jasso Arangure v. Matthew Whitaker

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a court may impose sanctions “to deter abuse of the judicial process”
• explaining that a district court has discretion to deny sanctions even where sanctionable conduct may have occurred
• \[T]he Supreme Court has made clear that courts should impose sanctions pursuant to their inherent authority only in rare circumstances.\
• “[C]lear and convincing evidence of bad faith is a prerequisite to an award of sanctions under the court's inherent power.”
• sanctions are discretionary, and a court may decline to award sanctions even if it has found that wrongdoing occurred
• “This court applies a ‘plain error’ standard when reviewing unpreserved objections to jury instructions in civil cases.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).