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Sanctions are usually monetary fines, levied against a party to a legal action or his/her attorney, for violating rules of procedure, or for abusing the judicial process. The most severe sanction is the involuntary dismissal, with prejudice, of the complaining party's cause of action, or of the responding party's answer. This has the effect of deciding the entire action against the sanctioned party without recourse, except to the degree that an appeal or trial de novo may be allowed because of reversible error. As a noun, the term is always used in the plural, even when it refers to a single event if a judge fines a party, it is not said that he/she imposed a sanction, but that he/she imposed sanctions. A judge may sanction a party during a legal proceeding, by which it is meant that he/she imposes penalties. In the United States federal court system, certain types of conduct are sanctionable under Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Conversely, the word may be used to mean "approve of," especially in an official sense. "The law sanctions such behavior" would mean that the behavior spoken of enjoys the specific approval of law.
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