John J. Gibbons, and v. United States District Court for the District of Nevada

Lawyer Gibbons has been assessed a five hundred dollar fine for contempt of court. The alleged contempt was in a supporting memorandum on an issue on review in the District Court in which Gibbons sought to disqualify one of the Nevada referees in bankruptcy who was handling a Nevada bankruptcy matter. Indirectly, the attack succeeded because the referee asked the district judge to be relieved of the whole bankruptcy case. This was done.

We hold that there was a direct contempt and that the district judge had a right to dispose of the issue within the limits of what was done.

All we really see…