Legal Opinion
United States v. Eric Hall
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 30, 1973No. 72-1622PublishedCited by 109 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WISDOM, Circuit Judge:
This case presents the question whether a district court has power to punish for criminal contempt a person who, though neither a party nor bearing any legal relationship to a party, violates a court order designed to protect the court’s judgment in a school desegregation case. We uphold the district court’s conclusion that in the circumstances of this case it had this power, and affirm the defendant’s conviction for contempt.
On June 23, 1971, the district court entered a “Memorandum Opinion and Final Judgment” in the case of Mims v. Duval County School Board. The court…
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