No. 20-944
Pamela D. Stark v. Joe Edward Stark
Tags: appellate-review constitutional-safeguards contempt contempt-of-court legislative-safeguards mootness mootness-doctrine prior-restraint right-to-petition
Latest Conference:
2021-03-19
Question Presented (from Petition)
1. Whether a state trial court can create a hybrid form of contempt which avoids traditional constitutional and legislative safeguards and prevents appellate review through creating mootness.
2. Whether the application of mootness to a contempt finding allows for a denial of appellate review of the underlying restraining order that constitutes a prior restraint of speech and a disfranchisement of the right to petition when doing so forecloses any future review as well.
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether a state trial court can create a hybrid form of contempt which avoids traditional constitutional and legislative safeguards and prevents appellate review through creating mootness
Docket Entries
2021-03-22
Petition DENIED.
2021-03-03
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/19/2021.
2021-01-07
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 12, 2021)
Attorneys
Pamela D. Stark
Pamela Diane Stark — Petitioner