criminal-contempt
9 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-910 | MEI-GSR Holdings, LLC, et al. v. Second Judicial District Court of Nevada, Washoe County, et al. | Nevada | 2026-02-03 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-contempt contempt criminal-contempt due-process fourteenth-amendment receiver-restitution | 1. This Court has been grappling with the contempt due process requirements when a contemnor removes property from a receiver's control without author… |
| 24-7442 | Patrick L. Booker v. South Carolina | South Carolina | 2025-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-contempt due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceeding procedural-rights summary-contempt | Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment require explicit notice and an opportunity to be heard when a court delays the imposition of c… |
| 24A636 | Patrick L. Booker v. South Carolina | South Carolina | 2024-12-27 | Presumed Complete | criminal-contempt due-process judicial-proceedings mail-delivery pro-se supreme-court-order | Question not identified. | |
| 23-1313 | Natin Paul v. The Roy F. and Joann Cole Mitte Foundation | Texas | 2024-06-18 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-procedure criminal-contempt due-process due-process,criminal-contempt,sixth-amendment,stan habeas-corpus judicial-ethics sixth-amendment | A Texas court permitted a financially interested civil party's lawyer to prosecute his opposing party, petitioner Natin Paul, for criminal contempt. T… |
| 23-1295 | Linnzi Zaorski v. Nicholas Usner | Louisiana | 2024-06-12 | Denied | child-custody civil-contempt civil-procedure contempt-of-court criminal-contempt criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence purge-clause reasonable-doubt suspended-sentence suspension-of-sentence | 1) Did the suspension of Ms. Zaorski's fixed jail sentence and fine, conditioned on terms wholly unrelated to the judgment which she was convicted of … | |
| 22-274 | Steven Donziger v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-09-22 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) | appointments-clause criminal-contempt criminal-procedure executive-power federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure interbranch-appointments judicial-power separation-of-powers special-prosecutor | In Young v. United States ex rel. Vuitton et Fils S.A., 481 U.S. 787 (1987), this Court endorsed the practice of appointing private lawyers to try cri… |
| 19-5961 | Mark Whitehead v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-due-process constitutional-law criminal-contempt due-process judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal jury-trial recusal trial-procedure | Whether a trial judge that has had a significant hand in the accusatory process of a criminal contempt jury trial should be recused from presiding ove… |
| 19-5277 | Robert M. Kowalski v. Executive Committee of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois | Seventh Circuit | 2019-07-22 | Denied | IFP | administrative-action bankruptcy constitutional-safeguards contempt-proceeding criminal-contempt due-process ex-parte judicial-review u.s-trustee us-trustee | Whether the Order of the Executive Committee for the Northern District of Illinois declaring that an attorney is "loud and disruptive" and ordering hi… |
| 18-201 | Parviz Montazer v. Parvin R. Montazer | California | 2018-08-15 | Denied | appellate-counsel appellate-procedure civil-procedure conflict-of-interest constitutional-protections criminal-contempt criminal-procedure due-process indigent-defendant indigent-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias right-to-counsel sixth-amendment transcript-costs | 1. Is not an appellate court required to appoint counsel to an indigent in a criminal case? if so, is not an indigent appellant entitled to the cost o… |