contempt of court

Disobedience of Ohio Court Order Lands LLC's Controller and Single Member in Jail

Doug Batey
March 15, 2012 20:39

Sometimes pushing the envelope is not a good strategy, and that’s clearly the case when your litigation strategy ends you up in jail. In an Ohio case the judge found an after-the-fact excuse for disobedience of the court’s order to be insufficient, held the LLC’s owner and its...

Restatements of Indian Law

March 14, 2012 20:13

Although the press release from the Supreme Court of India about the Restatements of Indian Law appeared last October, I only recently noticed that the first three restatements were available for purchase. The first three restatement topics are: legislative privilege, … Continue reading...

Witness comments on Facebook cause assault case to be dismissed

March 07, 2012 13:07

This may be the first time in Ireland that a case has been dismissed on the basis of Facebook comments. From the Mayo News:A WOMAN who wrote comments on a Facebook page about an alleged assault was told her actions had ‘fatally compromised’ the assault case which was subsequently dismissed.Judge...

Fifth Amendment Protects Against Decrypting Computer Files

February 24, 2012 05:03

In an interesting factual landscape arising out of a child pornography investigation, the Eleventh Circuit reversed a contempt sanction yesterday holding that the “decryption and production” of the content on computer hard drives “would trigger Fifth Amendment protection because...

How Do You Plead? Yadda Yadda Yadda.

Kevin Underhill
October 07, 2011 07:24

Please remember, even if it's only traffic court, you should at least appear to be taking things seriously. The Queensland Times reported recently that a 27-year-old woman irked a local magistrate with her response to his questions about her driving...Please remember, even if it's only traffic...