Contempt powers of federal courts

July 22, 2013

  • 93 Contempt
  • 93II Power to Punish, and Proceedings Therefor
  • 93k31 k. Constitutional and Statutory Provisions.

93 ContemptBy 1831 Act Congress sought to define independently contempt powers of federal courts, rather than merely to reflect all of oddities of early English practice.
Green v. U.S., 78 S.Ct. 632 (1958)