Legal Opinion
Link v. District of Columbia
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided December 1, 1994No. 93-CV-580PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SCHWELB, Associate Judge:
This appeal presents two questions regarding'the remedial authority of a trial judge who has held a litigant in civil contempt of court. We must first decide whether the judge may require the contemnor to pay the aggrieved party’s counsel fees in the absence of a finding that the contemptuous conduct was willful. If the judge has the authority to make an award of counsel fees under such circumstances, then we must also decide whether he may limit the award to a token sum because the fees would be paid from the public fisc and because the aggrieved party was…
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