http://www.oyez.org/issues/criminal-procedure/contempt/ U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments, presented by The Oyez Project (www.oyez.org) en-us http://www.oyez.org/images/oyezfeed.jpg U.S. Supreme Court Audio Recordings, presented by The Oyez Project (www.oyez.org) Tue, 01 Dec 1987 12:00:00 -0500 No details yet. No details yet. 86-787_19871201-argument http://www.oyez.org/cases/1980-1989/1987/1987_86_787/argument/ supreme, court, oyez, rehnquist Mon, 29 Nov 1993 12:00:00 -0500 <p>A Virginia trial court warned the United Mine Workers of America union to refrain from certain unlawful strike-related activities. Over the course of the next few months, finding that the union had disregarded the warning more than 400 times, the court fined them more than $64 million in what it termed civil fines, payable to the state of Virginia. After the strike was settled the court refused to cancel the fines, despite the fact that the strike settlement had called for their cancellation. The Court ruled that the fines were payable to the state, not the mining company, and that the settlement could not therefore cancel them. The Virginia Court of Appeals reversed, canceling the fines in accordance with the settlement agreement, but on further appeal the Supreme Court of Virginia reinstated the fines. It held that the union had been warned in advance and could have avoided the fines, meaning that it controlled its own destiny. The fines were therefore not criminal (imposing criminal fines would have required a jury trial) but instead civil, as the trial court had argued, because they were intended to maintain order and respect for the courts by encouraging compliance with a court order.</p> <p>Were the fines assessed against the United Mine Workers of America union, amounting to more than $64 million, criminal or civil in nature?</p> 92-1625_19931129-argument http://www.oyez.org/cases/1990-1999/1993/1993_92_1625/argument/ supreme, court, oyez, rehnquist Mon, 13 Mar 1967 12:00:00 -0500 <p>Civil rights activists who planned to march on Good Friday and Easter were denied parade permits from the city. When they indicated their intention to march anyway, Birmingham obtained an injunction from a state court which ordered them to refrain from demonstrating. Marchers who defied the order, including Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph Abernathy, were arrested.</p> <p>Did the injunction violate the First Amendment?</p> 249_19670313-argument http://www.oyez.org/cases/1960-1969/1966/1966_249/argument/ supreme, court, oyez, rehnquist Tue, 13 Jan 1987 12:00:00 -0500 No details yet. No details yet. 85-1329_19870113-argument http://www.oyez.org/cases/1980-1989/1986/1986_85_1329/argument/ supreme, court, oyez, rehnquist