BY DEBRA CASSENS WEISS
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A lawyer who said she had missed a filing deadline because of a family emergency in Mexico City was sanctioned $10,000 by a federal magistrate judge who said Instagram photos showed she was actually in New York City at the time.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael Hammer granted a motion to sanction New York-based lawyer Lina Franco in an April 26 opinion, report Law360, the New Jersey Law Journal and NJ.com.
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