contempt-power

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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