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Attorney General Austin Knudsen won’t be facing a contempt order from court in a wrongful discharge lawsuit. A former Montana Highway Patrol chief who is suing Knudsen and the state argued that the attorney general should be found in contempt for allowing the Department of Justice to disseminate confidential personnel information — an allegation the […]
Mumbai: Cracking down on the increasing number of illegal hoardings and banners, the Bombay High Court on Thursday issued notices to political parties asking why contempt action should not be initiated against them for defying undertakings given to the court, wherein they had assured they would not put up unauthorized hoardings. A bench of Chief […]
Craig Wright claimed to have been the author of the foundational text of bitcoin published under the pseudonym ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’ despite evidence against it. An Australian computer scientist who claimed he invented bitcoin was on Friday accused of contempt of court after he filed a 911 billion-pound ($1.18 trillion) lawsuit against Twitter founder Jack Dorsey‘s […]
Attorneys packed the courtroom in support of a colleague who missed a hearing. ALEXANDRIA, VA. (CN) — In a case that infuriated lawyers in this Northern Virginia community, a judge Monday backed away from a contempt charge that he threatened to bring against an attorney known for representing the indigent. Judge Thomas K. Cullen of […]
A disgraced real-estate lawyer who this week admitted to pilfering millions in client money to support her and her family’s lavish lifestyle was handcuffed in a Toronto courtroom Friday afternoon and marched out by a constable to serve a 20-day sentence for contempt of court, as her husband and mother watched. Singa Bui “consistently ignored […]
Posted November 14, 2024 at 6:42pm The House Rules Committee may mark up a resolution on Monday that would set terms for a House vote on holding Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken in contempt for his failure to testify at a special hearing on the Biden administration’s handling of the 2021 military withdrawal from Afghanistan. The […]