Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dealings and was soon joined by agents of the Treasury Department, Internal Revenue Service and Customs Service. Rich's often inept efforts to stonewall the probe took on a burlesque quality. His company refused to turn over documents to a grand jury, provoking $50,000-a-day contempt-of-court fines that messengers dutifully delivered to court each week. The payments eventually totaled $21 million...
...miners. About 50,000 of the country's 180,000 miners are still working despite the union walkout. So far, 817 police have been injured and 7,000 strikers arrested. As he sat with his N.U.M. delegation on the conference floor in Blackpool, Scargill was served with a contempt of court order for his failure to allow a strike vote. He dismissed the citation as an attempt "to take away the democratic right of our union to deal with our own affairs...
Mellish, 32, the father of three sons, refused, invoking the right to confidentiality for conversations with someone he was counseling. Such a claim has normally been honored by judges in the U.S., but Mellish was sentenced to 60 days for contempt of court and spent one night in jail earlier this month. He is now free on bond while an appeals court reviews his case...
...only about 100 cases have involved efforts to abrogate the clergy-penitent privilege, says the Rev. John C. Bush, head of the Kentucky Council of Churches and the co-author of The Right to Silence: Privileged Clergy Communication and the Law. Bush adds that no recognized clergyman, accused of contempt of court for claiming the privilege, has lost if he fought for his rights and appealed to a higher court. In one celebrated instance, the Rev. Paul Boe, an American Lutheran Church official, avoided jail in 1974 after he refused to testify before a federal grand jury investigating an American...
...happens, the Mellish case is not the only one currently in court. There is at least one other, which turns on a somewhat narrower set of facts. In Arizona, David Crumbaugh, a Pentecostal minister, is fighting a six-month contempt sentence and $1,000 fine for refusing to testify about what the wife of a convicted child killer told him while he counseled both during the murder trial. But Crumbaugh "got weak for a moment," as he put it, and has already signed an affidavit detailing what the wife said, thus undermining his privilege claim. Nonetheless, the National Coalition...