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State Rep. Randy Fine will face contempt of court proceedings on Oct. 1 for what a Brevard County circuit judge called "offensive conduct" during an unrelated hearing last month. Circuit Judge Scott ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A district judge in Pueblo on Friday erased the municipal contempt of court convictions and sentences for three people, finding city judges had illegally ...

In last week’s Tales from the Coffeeshop, Patroclos asked rhetorically: is everyone who publicly repeats some wild allegation about the courts investigated for contempt? To which the answer is a very ...

James W. Cushing of the Law Office of Faye Riva Cohen. While it should be self-evident that the parties to a court case are obliged to obey the terms of the court’s orders, there are, unfortunately, ...

A Pueblo judge voided the jail sentences of three people Nov. 1 after finding the city wrongfully incarcerated them using contempt of court charges without proper charging documents or jurisdiction.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Pueblo’s city attorney this week defended the city’s use of contempt charges to extend jail sentences for municipal court defendants in her first public ...

The House Judiciary Committee’s portion of major spending legislation includes a provision that appears to limit the authority of judges to find U.S. government officials in contempt of court, drawing ...

File photo: Kim Ogg discusses money laundering charges filed against a Harris County prisoner and two of his relatives during a press conference on July 23, 2024. A hearing to determine whether former ...

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