phantom-hearing

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A217 Geronimo Velasco v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-22 Presumed Complete court-integrity due-process federal-rules judicial-estoppel phantom-hearing sanctions Whether a federal district judge may commit judicial estoppel by issuing contradictory orders and imposing sanctions based on a legally non-existent '…