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...cars. ≫ A woman who had received a parking ticket for leaving her Volkswagen more than twelve inches from the curb. All the nearby larger cars, which were closer to the curb but extended much farther into the street, were not ticketed. ≫ A grocer who was found in contempt of court because he refused to raise the price of milk as ordered by the State Milk Commission. Wrote Kilpatrick: "We would happily award him $500 so that he could buy twice as much contempt for a law that has no place in a free enterprise society...
...wife rather than the paramour of a Nevada millionaire. In 1888, after Terry himself married Sarah, the case came before Supreme Court Justice Field, who was also serving as California's U.S. circuit judge. When Field ruled against Sarah, Terry floored a courtroom bailiff, served six months for contempt. After his release, he attacked Field on a California train and was about to draw his bowie knife when Field's bodyguard shot and killed him. Field went on to serve the longest term in Supreme Court history (34 years, nine months). Sarah spent the next 45 years...
...slouched in the witness chair, he "respectably declined" to answer any questions of substance, taking the First, Fourth, Fifth and 14th Amendments 158 times. Most insistent were his refusals to produce Klan financial records, despite Chairman Edwin Willis' warning that his intransigence could bring him a citation for contempt of Congress...
Last week it did. Louisiana Democrat Willis started contempt proceedings against not only Shelton but six other United Klan nabobs (including four Grand Dragons, an Imperial Klass and an Imperial Kludd) who had been equally uncooperative. If the citations are approved by the full committee and the House, the Klansmen will be subject to prosecution and sentences of up to a year in jail and $1,000 in fines each. That prospect, at least, unclammed Shelton. He was not in contempt of either Congress or the committee, he snorted, but only of the "martini-bibbing, character-assassinating and truth-twisting...
Where Mayor Wagner could appreciate Mike Quill's typically Irish humor and trade jokes with him, Mayor Lindsay seems to have treated him with that cold distaste and haughty contempt that characterize recent New York Times editorials. "If he wants to talk to me so much," Mike Quill reportedly said after one of the few times Lindsay had bothered to enter the transit negotiations, "then why does he insist on looking over the top of my head?" It should hardly be necessary to point out which Mayor's approach has been the more successful in protecting the public interest...