http://www.oyez.org/issues/criminal-procedure/contempt/ U.S. Supreme Court Cases, presented by The Oyez Project (www.oyez.org) en-us <p>No details yet.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1960-1969/1967/1967_52/ <p>No details yet.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1950-1959/1958/1958_4/ <p>No details yet.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1950-1959/1955/1955_110/ <p>No details yet.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1960-1969/1965/1965_67/ <p>No details yet.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1970-1979/1973/1973_73_5615/ <p>No details yet.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1960-1969/1968/1968_200/ <p>No details yet.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1950-1959/1957/1957_100/ <p>No details yet.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1960-1969/1965/1965_6/ <p>No details yet.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1980-1989/1987/1987_86_787/ <p>No details yet.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1960-1969/1961/1961_498/ <p>No details yet.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1960-1969/1969/1969_513/ <p>No details yet.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1970-1979/1970/1970_5485/ <p>No details yet.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1950-1959/1959/1959_164/ <p>No details yet.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1970-1979/1974/1974_73_689/ <p>No details yet.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1970-1979/1970/1970_121/ <p>No details yet.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1950-1959/1956/1956_37/ <p>A California trial judge convicted attorney Penelope Watson of summary contempt for her conduct in court. After the judge had stated repeatedly not to discuss punishment, Watson asked her client whether he was facing the death penalty and whether he was facing life without possibility of parole. The judge found that Watson had willfully refused to comply with his order not to discuss punishment and that Watson's questions had permanently prejudiced the jury in favor of her client. On appeal, Watson argued that her due process rights were violated because she did not have notice of the prohibited conduct and because the trial judge could not have known without a hearing whether her conduct was willful. Ultimately, the Court of Appeals, in reversing, concluded that Watson had not engaged in a pattern of repeated violations that had pervaded the courtroom and threatened the dignity of the court.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1990-1999/1996/1996_96_1383/ <p>No details yet.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1960-1969/1965/1965_412/ <p>No details yet.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1960-1969/1963/1963_167/ <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> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1990-1999/1993/1993_92_1625/ <p>No details yet.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1960-1969/1963/1963_107/ <p>No details yet.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1970-1979/1974/1974_73_1162/ <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> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1960-1969/1966/1966_249/ <p>No details yet.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1950-1959/1956/1956_2/ <p>No details yet.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1980-1989/1986/1986_85_1329/