In both criminal and civil contempt proceedings but more commonly in the former a distinction is drawn between contumacious acts that take place in the presence of the court and are labeled direct contempts and those that are committed outside the geographic boundaries of the court and are called indirect, or constructive, contempts.
The judge ruled that Hosey was in "minor direct criminal contempt" for not giving up the police reports he obtained about the circumstances of a double murder in January 2013 (see here) and revealing the source of those documents.
He asked, sarcastically, whether Western allies planned to fire missiles at all the world's "crooked regimes," and directed special contempt to world leaders who have approved attacks on Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.
Further compounding the issue are subcategories of direct and indirect contempt, and civil and criminal contempt.
But it was also consistent with the contempt directed at Griffin and his blueprint by the conservative Anglophile city planners who undermined the Chicagoan as soon as he won the city's 1912 design competition.
Bonnie Greer alone, unelected and hence beyond contamination, sat next to Griffin, though with her elbow nearest to him planted firmly on the desk throughout, one shoulder directed in sniffy contempt.
The argument why neither Clinton nor Trump are palatable for the U.S. presidency are similar across the board, but for some Iranian-Americans there seems to be added contempt directed towards Clinton's comments regarding Iranians and Iran over the years.
He said further that the threat to deport Mr. Arafat, made by the Israeli cabinet, was "in blatant contempt and direct challenge of the whole international community, but with the support and protection of the superpower".
Time and again the attorney general has failed to intervene or to warn the media against such reporting even after charges are brought, yet it is his direct responsibility to ensure contempt of court is not allowed.
Some of the most diverting pages here recount the band's attitude to those directing them, veering from contempt to respect to adulation.
