United States v. Agosto-Vega

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• reversing a sanction order and noting “the importance of care and circumspection in the exercise of the court’s inherent sanction power”
• reversing inherent 19 power sanctions imposed for the filing of last-minute motions in 20 limine
• “[T]he sua sponte issuance of a sanction order, staking out a view and judgment without any warning or opportunity to be heard, increases the likelihood of error and the appearance of unfairness.”
• district court cannot “sanction counsel for defying the court’s unstated expectations”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).