United States v. Eric Hall

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · Decided 1973-01-30

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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 c…

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