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...supporters, including Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot and the National Organization for Women, she is Mother Courage personified. Dr. Elizabeth Morgan, 42, a plastic surgeon, has spent two years in jail -- without benefit of trial -- for civil contempt of court. Her offense: refusing to disclose the whereabouts of her daughter Hilary, now 7, to Washington Judge Herbert B. Dixon Jr., who had ordered unsupervised visits with her ex-husband, oral surgeon Eric Foretich, 46, whom Morgan charges with sexually abusing the child...
...charges out of malice against Foretich; her defiance of Dixon's order, they argue, is a sign of obsession, not maternal devotion. To ethicists and legal scholars, the case raises some troubling questions: Should there be time limits on a judge's right to jail a person for civil contempt? Does a parent, where suspicions of sexual abuse exist, have a moral right to defy the courts to protect a child...
Morgan's ordeal should soon be coming to an end. Last week the Senate passed a bill that sets a one-year limit on the length of time an individual in a child-custody case can be jailed for civil contempt in the District of Columbia without facing trial for criminal contempt. Morgan could be freed once the Senate bill is reconciled with somewhat broader legislation previously passed by the House. Meanwhile, on Sept. 20, the full District of Columbia Appeals Court is set to hear oral arguments on a ruling last month by a three-member panel...
...German conflicts with France ran back for centuries, so did those with the Poles, conflicts tinged with contempt. Long before Hitler, General Hans von Seeckt, the haughty army commander during the Weimar Republic, had said of the frontiers established by Versailles, "Poland's existence is intolerable, incompatible with the essential conditions of Germany's life. Poland must go and will go." That was the mission that Hitler now vowed to carry...
...chaos, scurrying among emergency- relief workers and hospital aides. They even tramped through the halls of Parkland Memorial Hospital handing out name cards to the families of the deceased. Top lawyers in the field, who get their cases mainly through referrals, consider such tactics lowbrow. "I have utter contempt for those who choose to get cases this way. They deserve the bad reputation they have," says Lee Kreindler, a New York City lawyer who won a record $7.9 million judgment in the Delta case...