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July 10, 2025
In this earlier post, my current colleague Danny Spiegel (who was an NC Assistant Appellate Defender at the time the post was published), analyzed the law of civil contempt and […]
READ POST "Contempt: NC Court of Appeals vacates a “springing” order for arrest (July 10, 2025)"January 10, 2024
It is a common question: when the court issues an order to show cause for contempt, how is that order served on a respondent? Is the order required to be […]
READ POST "Contempt: Does an Order to Show Cause have to be served by Rule 4 service? (January 10, 2024)"July 27, 2016
**UPDATE: Effective July 21, 2017, Session Law 2017-158 expands the clerk’s civil contempt authority. The clerk now has the authority to exercise civil contempt in any instance when the […]
READ POST "The Clerk’s Contempt Authority (July 27, 2016)"