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...give a deposition. The judge twice ignored the order. The whole controversy, he says, is "not interesting to me." Superior Court Judge Byron Arnold, 72, called a hearing on the matter, and McComb sent his lawyers but did not show up himself. Arnold thereupon sentenced him to prison for contempt, suspending the sentence only until Nov. 8 so that McComb can appeal...
McComb's lawyers have raised a variety of defenses, and the situation is a long way from being resolved. But there are already elements that trouble California lawyers. Says one: "To my way of thinking, if a judge doesn't show up for a contempt hearing against him and allows a contempt ruling against him, then why shouldn't any punk on the street violate...
...Cambion refuses to comply with an NLRB order requiring it to bargain, the case could go to a United States Court of Appeals. The company could be found in contempt of the Labor Board's order. The court might require Cambion to pay back wages to workers for the time it had refused to bargain...
Wolfe said today's students share the artist's contempt for "the silent majority." He cited the irony of a recent survey, in which 85 per cent of the American youths polled said they were "very happy" with their lives, but 83 per cent said democracy was "a sham...
...originally intended to address Professor Anderson's feelings (as distinct, it appears, from those of his committee) that I should be censured for allegedly refusing to cooperate with the Hartman Review Committee in the forum of the Faculty of Design, and with the contempt they merit as being unfounded and without basis in fact. I must now repudiate his allegations publicly...