Thus, we reverse the trial justice's finding of contempt based on the "duck and run" comment and vacate the related sanctions.
Godard's 1963 film Le Mépris (Contempt), based on a story by the Italian novelist Alberto Moravia, marked his only venture into orthodox and comparatively expensive filmmaking.
His masterpiece, El desdén con el desdén ("Contempt with Contempt"), based on parts of four plays of Lope de Vega, is marked, as are all his best plays, by its elegance and faithfulness to real life.
Or is it that one is not free because one is not content?" In "Contempt" (1964), based on Alberto Moravia's novel "A Ghost at Noon," Senecan serenity is pitted against the edginess of modern man, and Godard uses a documentary style that allows him the freedom to emphasize things that would pass one by in a movie with a traditional narrative.
On January 23 the court also issued an additional contempt order based on the tone of petitioner's answer to still another motion filed by Shamberg asking that petitioner be placed in contempt for not producing all of the documents listed in the motion to produce.
Although neither the bench decision nor the subsequent written order referred to the trial justice's February 22, 2006 warning to the parties to avoid "discussion" with the jury, the trial justice's contempt finding based on the Attorney General's website posting undeniably rested in part on that directive.
In an opinion article in The New York Times on Thursday, Martin H. Redish, a law professor at Northwestern University, said courts should create a novel exception to the president's otherwise unlimited pardon power for contempt convictions based on violations of constitutional rights.
Since the contempt sentences were based on behavior witnessed by the judge, no hearings were required for the contempt charges, and the attorneys were immediately handcuffed and led to jail.
In view of our decision on this phase of the case, it is unnecessary to reach the question whether the single conviction for contempt (which was based on the refusal to give incriminating testimony and on the refusal to reveal a confidential marital communication) would be valid if petitioner were entitled to claim one, but not both, of the privileges.
"A finding of civil contempt must be based on a party's lack of substantial compliance with a court order, which is demonstrated by the failure of a party to 'employ the utmost diligence in discharging [its] * * * responsibilities.'" Gardiner v. Gardiner, 821 A.232229, 232 (R.I.2003) (quoting Durfee, 636 at2d at 704).
So I was familiar with the world of pornography, and I always found it distressing and based on contempt.
