contempt-power
3 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-667 | Belinda Parker Brown v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2024-12-19 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-communication contempt-power court-procedure first-amendment free-speech judicial-discretion | Whether a court's exercise of contempt powers for verbal interactions with attorneys during recess violates an individual's First Amendment rights |
| 22-6193 | Marie Assa'ad-Faltas v. South Carolina | South Carolina | 2022-12-01 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights contempt-power contempt-powers due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-trial prison-overcrowding | Whether incarceration for up to six months for alleged indirect contempt without trial by jury is always per se cruel and unusual |
| 22-426 | Transperfect Global, Inc., et al. v. Robert Pincus | Delaware | 2022-11-07 | Denied | contempt contempt-power corporate-litigation declaratory-judgment delaware-law due-process first-amendment judicial-declaration petition-clause | Whether holding TPG in contempt because it filed a lawsuit in Nevada unconstitutionally burdened TPG's First-Amendment-right-to-petition |