Sandra Finch v. Allstate Property and Casualty Insurance Company

I. Whether a District Court may use the inherent power to penalize the exercise of a Fifth Amendment privilege? II. Whether Petitioner received the process due to her under the Fifth Amendment to the Federal Constitution where she was denied adequate notice of the orders to testify sufficient to comply, object and/or prepare a meaningful defense; denied notice of the specific conduct being sanctioned and type of sanctions being sought sufficient to prepare a defense; denied any hearing on attorney fee sanctions which in turn deprived her of any right to take testimony on attorney fees, confront the attorney’s fees or to rebut them, or challenge the nexus of the conduct complained of with the topic of the law journal? III. Does the Court of Appeals’ misapplication of a de novo finding of waiver, which was never raised in the trial Court or in any appellate brief, invoke this Court’s duty of supervision of the federal judiciary?