James W. Cushing of the Law Office of Faye Riva Cohen. While it should be self-evident that the parties to a court case are obliged to obey the terms of the court’s orders, there are, unfortunately, ...

A divided federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered U.S. District Judge James Boasberg to end his contempt inquiry into senior Trump administration officials after they deported more than 130 ...

April 14 (UPI) --The District of Columbia U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday stopped U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg from holding contempt hearings for the Trump administration after it ...

A federal judge in Minnesota held a Trump administration attorney in civil contempt for “flagrant disobedience of court orders” in the case of a noncitizen swept up in the immigration crackdown there ...

A divided federal appeals court sided with the Trump administration on Friday in a case over the president’s use of the Alien Enemies Act in deportation matters — but it did not fully snuff out a ...

Judicial contempt is a tool few jurists have reached for to curb the administration’s misrule—and for good reason. But that may be about to change. While Congress’s unwillingness to counteract Donald ...

ST PAUL PARK, Minn. — Amid strain on the federal court system resulting from Operation Metro Surge, one judge took things a step further to compel the Justice Department to comply with orders. A ...

A federal appeals court granted the Trump administration's request Friday to temporarily halt contempt proceedings ordered by U.S. District Judge James Boasberg as he weighs whether senior ...

Melissa Quinn is a senior reporter for CBSNews.com, where she covers U.S. politics, with a focus on the Supreme Court and federal courts. Washington — A federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered an end ...