civil-contempt
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-1161 | Chase Hunter v. Joanne Auclair | Massachusetts | 2026-04-09 | Pending | appellate-jurisdiction attorneys-fees civil-contempt due-process frivolous-appeal prevailing-party-doctrine | In Massachusetts, for most civil and criminal appeals, appellate jurisdiction is established only by appellate rules from which broad exercise of appe… | |
| 25-6942 | Albert Whitney Coburn v. Lara Brooke Seefeldt | Washington | 2026-03-03 | Pending | IFP | ability-to-pay child-support civil-contempt consumer-credit-protection-act fourteenth-amendment garnishment | 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state court to impose civil contempt for nonpayment without making the ability-to-pay findings required… |
| 25A917 | Taron Jacquett v. Estefania Jacquett | Florida | 2026-02-13 | Denied | ability-to-pay child-support-enforcement civil-contempt due-process fraudulent-affidavits parental-rights | Question not identified. | |
| 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… |
| 25-258 | Zante, Inc., dba Marlena's Bistro and Pizzeria v. Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development | Michigan | 2025-09-05 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-contempt equal-protection fundamental-rights subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause void-ab-initio | ISSUE I. ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL LAWS VOID AB INITIO REQUIRING RETROSPECTIVE TREATMENT OF OPINIONS AFFECTING FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS? ISSUE II. DO MICHIGA… |
| 24-1168 | M. D., By Next Friend, Sarah R. Stukenberg, et al. v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-05-14 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-contempt compliance court-order due-process judicial-procedure sanctions | 1. Whether civil contempt sanctions imposed through proceedings that undisputedly comported with civil due process may be affirmed even if the cont… |
| 24A225 | Alicia Marie Richards v. Richard A. Marshack, Chapter 7 Trustee | Ninth Circuit | 2024-08-30 | Presumed Complete | certiorari civil-contempt court-procedure filing-deadline prisoner-rights pro-se | Question not identified. | |
| 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 … | |
| 23-785 | PHH Mortgage Corporation v. Mark Anthony Guthrie | Fourth Circuit | 2024-01-22 | Denied | Amici (4) | bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-court civil-contempt debt-collection discharge-injunction federal-preemption preemption state-law-claims uniform-federal-law | Whether the Bankruptcy Code preempts state-law claims premised on alleged efforts to collect a debt in violation of the bankruptcy court's discharge i… |
| 23-704 | Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. v. Federal Trade Commission, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-12-29 | Denied | civil-contempt civil-procedure contempt decisional-law equitable-remedies federal-trade-commission ftc-act permanent-injunction rule-60(b)(6) sanctions | Section 13(b) of the Federal Trade Commission Act, 15 U.S.C. § 53(b), permits the Commission to obtain a "permanent injunction" in court to stop viola… | |
| 22-1228 | Josephine Tripodi, et al. v. North Coventry Township, Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2023-06-21 | Denied | 14th-amendment civil-contempt compelled-sale due-process fourteenth-amendment property-rights real-property state-court | Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment limit the power of a state court, to order the compelled sale of a private person's real prope… | |
| 22-958 | Andris Pukke, et al. v. Federal Trade Commission, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-04-03 | Denied | civil-contempt civil-rights due-process factfinding federal-trade-commission-act fifth-amendment injunction injunction-violation monetary-relief monetary-sanctions | 1. In the exercise of their power to impose civil contempt sanctions, the courts have balanced the competing concerns of necessity and potential arbit… | |
| 22-6126 | Jeffrey Salt v. Waterkeeper Alliance, Inc. | Second Circuit | 2022-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-contempt civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment intellectual-property non-party non-party-injunction trademark trademark-dispute | Were Jeffrey Salt's fifth amendment due process rights violated when the District Court, in a federal civil trademark case between two corporations, r… |
| 21-977 | Robert E. Kovacevich v. Gordon R. Finch, et al. | Washington | 2022-01-07 | Denied | case-settlement civil-contempt evidentiary-hearing judicial-estoppel judicial-procedure least-intrusive-remedy mootness supreme-court-precedent trial-court-discretion | The state courts have failed to dismiss a civil contempt that was decided during trial. The case was later settled. The failure conflicts with three d… | |
| 20-7854 | David Olson v. Stephanie Olson | New York | 2021-04-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-division child-support civil-contempt conflicting-rulings downward-modification due-process incarceration legal-procedure | Did the New York Appellate Division, First Department err in upholding the Trial Court for adjudging Petitioner in civil contempt and ordering incarce… |
| 20-475 | Stanley V. Campbell v. Eagle Force Holdings, LLC, et al. | Delaware | 2020-10-13 | Denied | 14th-amendment civil-contempt civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process judicial-procedure personal-jurisdiction sanctions | 1. Can a finding of civil contempt and the imposition of a sanction be sustained consistent with the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment to the C… | |
| 20-5511 | Debbie Pittman v. Ronnie Pittman | Illinois | 2020-08-27 | Denied | IFP | appeals civil-contempt civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection notice-of-appeal premature-filing prematurely-filed standing | 1. Whether a notice of appeal filed on May 10, 2016 is considered prematurely filed when the orders being challenged cover the period between 2013 and… |
| 19-7762 | Galen LeMar Amerson, et al. v. Atlas Law Firm, P.C., et al. | Colorado | 2020-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-contempt civil-liberties constitutional-rights due-process hearing hearing-requirements judicial-procedure judicial-sanctions kidnapping liberty property warrantless-search | If the right to a hearing, is assured under due process, according to the 6th and 14th amendments, before a person can be deprived of life, liberty or… |
| 18-9800 | Barton Joseph Adams v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 5th-amendment civil-contempt civil-rights civil-rights-violations constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pre-trial-incarceration section-2255 supervisory-powers | Whether the district court and the appeal court departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings throughout this case including whe… |
| 18-489 | Bradley Weston Taggart v. Shelley A. Lorenzen, Executor of the Estate of Stuart Brown, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-16 | Judgment Issued | Amici (8) | bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-procedure civil-contempt creditor-good-faith creditor-rights debtor-rights discharge-injunction good-faith judicial-conflict | Whether, under the Bankruptcy Code, a creditor's good-faith belief that the discharge injunction does not apply precludes a finding of civil contempt. |
| 18-408 | Kohn Law Group, Inc. v. Auto Parts Manufacturing Mississippi, Inc. | Fifth Circuit | 2018-10-02 | Denied | Amici (2) | appellate-review appellate-review-standard armour-standard armour-v-united-states civil-contempt civil-contempt-standard consent-decree district-court-discretion federal-circuit fifth-circuit injunction-interpretation interpleader legal-standard mccomb-v-jacksonville-paper mccomb-v-jacksonville-paper-co non-consent-order | 1. What is the standard for judging allegations of civil contempt of an injunction or other disputed order, as distinct from a consent de cree? Is it … |
| 18-5960 | Kenneth Gharib v. Thomas H. Casey | Ninth Circuit | 2018-09-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-contempt coercive-confinement criminal-procedure due-process indefinite-confinement judicial-discretion recalcitrant-witness-statute witness-statute | Whether the Recalcitrant Witness Statute's eighteen-month cap on coercive confinement, or a similarly objective measure, should inform the due process… |