Contempt is a tool that trial judges use to protect the integrity of the court. Beyond that, contempt has two distinct purposes: punishment and prevention, says Cheryl Howell, a professor of public ...

Ex-Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani risks being held in contempt in federal court in Manhattan. Two GA election workers said he repeatedly ignored court orders in their federal defamation case. If he's ...

James W. Cushing of the Law Office of Faye Riva Cohen. While it should be self-evident that the parties to a court case are obliged to obey the terms of the court’s orders, there are, unfortunately, ...

A federal judge for the second time in the last three months has questions about why MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has failed to ...

For the third consecutive year, the City of Loogootee is locked in a high-stakes legal battle with the ACLU of Indiana over ...

Giuliani, 80, has cited health and safety concerns for his upcoming court appearance. In a filing, he claimed to receive ...

A subpoena, two missed depositions, and one court order later, a St. Lucie County deputy found himself on the wrong side of the law. On August 11, St. Lucie County Sheriff Richard Del Toro announced ...

“The (Montgomery County) court did not impose on mother a fine, period of incarceration, or any other penalty,” Chief Judge Matthew J. Fader wrote for the Court of Special Appeals in striking down the ...

An important recent decision that merits discussion is In the Matter of Kossoff PLLC, 2021 WL 5492186 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 2021), because it discusses whether a bankruptcy court has the authority to ...

Nearly a year after Maryland’s second-highest court ruled that people cannot be held in civil contempt for having violated a court order if they subsequently complied with it, family law attorneys are ...