Showing posts with label contempt of court. Show all posts
Showing posts with label contempt of court. Show all posts

Thursday, June 5, 2014

Professional Etiquette, rule number two: don't call the judge names. Attorney gets $1000 fine.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – A Plainfield Township attorney was fined $1,000 for writing that Kent County Circuit Court judge Christopher Yates was acting "as the bitch" for one side in a contentious lawsuit.

Article here. 



Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Hat-wearing man gets contempt fine in Kent County


Cameron Lasenby, a 29-year-old Northeast Side resident was waiting for a friend’s sentencing in the courtroom of Kent County Circuit Court Judge James Robert Redford when, as a courtesy, the judge informed everyone that the hearing had been adjourned.
Cameron had sat patiently with everyone else, waiting for more than an hour with his hat in his lap on Monday, Nov. 4.

Article here.