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25A217 Geronimo Velasco v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-22 Denied court-integrity due-process federal-rules judicial-estoppel phantom-hearing sanctions 1. Whether a federal district judge commits judicial estoppel by issuing contradictory orders stating that a plaintiff both "failed to appear" at a he…