The petitioner was sentenced to 15 months' imprisonment for criminal contempt stemming from his refusal to testify before a federal grand jury.
Michael B. Nifong, the former Durham County prosecutor, pleaded not guilty to criminal contempt charges stemming from his failure to turn over complete DNA testing results in the now-discredited rape case against three former Duke University lacrosse players.
The former longtime director of the network of social service agencies that for decades was controlled by Assemblyman Vito J. Lopez of Brooklyn pleaded guilty on Thursday to a federal criminal contempt charge stemming from inaccurate documents that appeared to justify an outsize salary increase she received.
As a solo performer, he was still a victim of blacklisting, especially after his 1961 conviction for contempt of Congress stemming from his refusal in 1955 to answer questions posed to him by the House Committee on Un-American Activities concerning his political activities.
The same day, Browner pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges of battery and contempt of court stemming from a February incident.
It covered Ms. Tymoshenko's arrest in August of 2011 on contempt of court charges stemming from her remaining seated while addressing a judge.
A Federal Court has summoned F. Lee Baily, the lawyer and executive director of the union, to appear Wed nesday to answer a contempt of court charge stemming from alleged failure to heed the ear lier court order.
Eugene Dennis wasin addition to his Smith Act chargesfighting contempt of Congress charges stemming from an incident in 1947 when he refused to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
In a regrettable denouement to the Clinton impeachment drama, a former spokesman for Kenneth Starr has been charged with criminal contempt in an investigation of news leaks stemming from the Monica Lewinsky inquiry.
They also said lawyers for the House would soon file a lawsuit seeking to enforce a subpoena for internal Justice Department e-mails from 2011, stemming from a House vote in June to hold Mr. Holder in contempt of Congress.
In that case, a jury trial is scheduled for June 22 on two counts of criminal contempt and one count of obstruction of justice stemming from her refusal to testify before a Whitewater grand jury.
