NEW YORK -- A New York judge on Friday denied a motion from former President Donald Trump's legal team to purge a civil contempt of court ruling and the $10,000 per day fine that accompanies it. Judge ...

CHARLESTON — A cabinet secretary and a superintendent of one of the state’s prisons are being held in civil contempt court for defying a federal order to commit a suicide-prone inmate to one of West ...

FORT PIERCE — A St. Lucie County sheriff’s deputy was taken to jail from a courtroom Aug. 11 after a judge ordered he was to be held in civil contempt, according to a state prosecutor and sheriff’s ...

PHOENIX — A federal judge found Maricopa County's controversial sheriff in civil contempt of federal court Friday.. U.S. District Judge Murray Snow ruled that Sheriff Joe Arpaio and three of his top ...

FULTON COUNTY, GA — A judge holds Fulton County Commissioners in civil contempt in their ongoing fight over controversial election board appointments. “The court finds beyond a reasonable doubt that ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WAVY) — The Richmond City Circuit Court has found the nonprofit American Muslims for Palestine in civil contempt of court Monday for violating a court order from June requiring it to ...

A civil court’s finding of contempt - even if accompanied by a sanction such as a fine or a stint in jail - does not constitute a criminal conviction under the Criminal Procedure Act. This means that ...