criminal-contempt

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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 Pending 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…