Word: contempts
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...defendants in the tense courtroom, officers moved in to quiet him. Douglas attempted to intervene, and the pair were grabbed and wrestled to the bench by state troopers and deputy sheriffs. Superior Court Judge Harold M. Mulvey promptly sentenced them to six months in jail for contempt of court...
Hilliard had been free on bail on charges that he had threatened the life of President Nixon at the antiwar Moratorium rally in San Francisco last November. Seale has already been sentenced to four years in prison for contempt during the conspiracy trial of the Chicago Seven. Huey Newton, Panther cofounder, is in jail for manslaughter. Eldridge Cleaver is in fugitive exile in Algeria. Fred Hampton, Panther leader in Illinois, and Bobby Hutton, the national treasurer, died in gun fights with police. With Hilliard and Douglas locked up, Raymond Masai Hewitt and Don Cox now become the ranking Panthers still...
...Angeles city school system walked out last week after contract negotiations between the United Teachers of Los Angeles and the Board of Education broke down. At week's end the teachers were still on strike despite a temporary court injunction ordering them back to work and threatened contempt citations for union leaders...
...when he was asked to testify about his treatment of Joseph Housek, a former patient, Lifschutz demurred. The law, he declared, should not force him to betray even the existence of a patient-therapist relationship, much less what it involved. As a result, Lifschutz was ultimately found in contempt of court and sentenced to jail until he agreed to answer...
Last week the high court upheld the decision to hold the psychiatrist in contempt. In essence, the decision reaffirmed the state's waiver law. When a plaintiff makes his own mental condition an issue in a lawsuit, the court ruled, the need for accurate trial evidence overrides a psychiatrist's right to protect the confidentiality of what he knows. Even so, the court recognized a patient's right to avoid public embarrassment. It emphasized that judges should limit the scope of the inquiry in the light of "the nature of the injuries which the patient-litigant himself...