civil-contempt

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A917 Taron Jacquett v. Estefania Jacquett Florida 2026-02-13 Application ability-to-pay child-support-enforcement civil-contempt due-process fraudulent-affidavits parental-rights Whether a trial court may enforce civil contempt sanctions and child support obligations based on fraudulent financial affidavits without providing no…
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 Whether an order directing a flat, unconditional restitution payment to a receiver constitutes civil or criminal contempt under due process
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 Are unconstitutional laws void ab initio requiring retrospective treatment of opinions affecting fundamental rights?
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 Whether civil contempt sanctions imposed through proceedings that undisputedly comported with civil due process may be affirmed even if the contempt o…
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 Whether a pro se prisoner's motion to extend a filing deadline for a certiorari petition constitutes a valid legal request when the underlying civil c…
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 Due-process-clause-violation
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 Can a fundamental change in decisional law independently support relief from a judgment under Rule 60(b)(6)?
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 proper…
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 Whether the district court denied petitioners due process by imposing civil contempt sanctions without adequate factfinding
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 Did Jeffrey Salt's Fifth Amendment due process rights violate when the District Court ruled he was bound by an injunction and subject to civil contemp…
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 Whether the state courts failed to dismiss a civil contempt that was decided during trial, which conflicts with three decisions of the Supreme Court r…
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 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 Cons…
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 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 20…
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
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 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 What is the standard for judging allegations of civil contempt of an injunction or other disputed order, as distinct from a consent decree?
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…