While inherent power resides in the courts of record in this State to impose financial sanctions upon parties or their attorneys who engage in abusive litigation practices, based upon the circumstances of the case before us we conclude that Special Term's exercise of its inherent power constituted an improvident exercise of discretion and, therefore, the order, insofar as it imposed such a sanction, must be reversed.
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