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The Justice Department is asking a federal judge to impose \u201csubstantial monetary sanctions\u201d on a California lawyer who briefly halted but ultimately failed to block the deportation of an immigrant from Laos who pleaded guilty to attempted murder in the 1990s.”<\/p>\n
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