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3.962 documents for contempt of court definition

- Hicks v. Feiock, 485 U.S. 624 (1988)
... show cause why he should not be held in contempt on nine counts of failure to make the payments. At...If the definition of these proceedings and their resultant relief as...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Securities fraud.
...Definition of "Security" i. Stocks and Notes Lacking a Profit...Parallel or Subsequent Suits 3. Contempt Proceedings V. PENALTIES VI. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS A...(21) The court explained that this determination requires inquiry...
- American Criminal Law Review
- Vol. 47 Nbr. 2, March 2010
- John H. Taberer, Margaret Taberer, His Wife, v. Armstrong World Industries, Inc., Asten-Hill Manufacturing Company, the Celotex Corporation, Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc., Fibreboard Corporation, H.K. Porter Company, Inc., Hopeman Brothers, Inc., Keene Corporation, Owens-Corning Fiberglas Company, Owens-Illinois Glass Company, Pittsburgh Corning Corporation, P.P.G. Industries, Raymark Industries, Inc., Southern Textile Corporation, Turner & Newall, Ltd., Forty-Eight Insulating, Inc., National Gypsum Company, Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust, United States Gypsum Company, David M. Weinfeld, Appellant., 954 F.2d 888 (3rd Cir. 1992)
...* OPINION OF THE COURT. BECKER, Circuit Judge. Appellant David Weinfeld, ... judge adjudging him guilty of criminal contempt, fining him $5,000, and revoking his pro hac vice ... section 401 as an exhaustive definition of the conduct courts may punish as contempt, rath...
- Federal Circuits

- Section 1: Legislative Powers
...The courts are assured independence through good behavior ten...Shortly before the Civil War, contempt proceedings against a witness who refused to testi... the pre-incorporation administrative definition, the Court explained that "[t]he statutory term 'e...
- Constitution of the United States (Annotated)
- Witzman v. Adam, (Ohio 2011)
A jury returned a verdict for Appellee on Appellants claim for medical malpractice, finding that Appellee was not negligent. Testimony from Appellees expert witnesses provided substantial competent evidence to support the jurys verdict and finding. The trial court did not err when it overruled Appellants motion for directed verdict based on the issue of negligence, nor is the jurys verdict contrary to the manifest weight of the evidence. Because the issue of Appellants failure to mitigate is moot, the evidence on the issue is immaterial. Also, Appellant fails to establish that the trial court erred in the following ways: allowing Appellee to cross examine a medical expert on legal issues; admitting expert testimony on causation allegedly given in terms of possibility rather than p...

... definition of contempt of court. Denovchek v. Board of Tr...� of prejudice to the party making the contempt motion, contempt is essentially a matter betw...
- Ohio Supreme Court
- Three concepts of dignity in constitutional law.
The U.S. Supreme Court and constitutional courts around the world regular... requiring a space of freedom for self-definition. . 5. Free Speech . American free speech jurisprud... space is potentially one of respect or contempt, or pride or shame."). Similarly, Ronald Dworkin e...
- Notre Dame Law Review
- Vol. 86 Nbr. 1, February 2011
- United States v. Dixon, 509 U.S. 688 (1993)
... distribute, he was convicted of criminal contempt for violating a condition of his release on an unr... than putting aside the statutory definitions of criminal offenses. Of course, JUSTICE WHITE'S v...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of County of Burlington, 566 U.S. (2012)
...The textbook definition of the term covers any unauthorized item.See Pris... of Prisons formisdemeanors or civil contempt). The circumstances Opinion of the Court Opini...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- The Ideological Origins of American Federalism.
...Senate Confirmation of Judges 3. Contempt of Congress by Executive Branch Officials B. Towar.... Part III suggests that LaCroix's court-centric view is especially unfortunate because the... of power, no longer susceptible of any definition." (111) He concluded that the incorporation of ban...
- Yale Law Journal
- Vol. 120 Nbr. 5, March 2011
- United States v. Barnett, 376 U.S. 681 (1964)
... assistants to prosecute this criminal contempt proceeding under Rule 42 (b) of the Federal Rules ... or restraint" under any reasonable definition of these terms. The sanction imposed for criminal ...
- U.S. Supreme Court