Doe v. Board of Professional Responsibility of the Supreme Court of Tennessee

How courts have described this case

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• stating that the confidentiality requirement of section 25 should be considered a standing order of this Court
• holding civil contempt, unlike criminal contempt, is designed to coerce an individual to comply with a court’s order
• recognizing “that one may not be held in contempt unless he or she violates a specific order of a tribunal properly having jurisdiction of that person”
• approving the use of a special master in contempt proceedings filed in this Court stemming from a violation of the Supreme Court rule
• explaining that the purpose of civil contempt is to coerce compliance with the court’s orders for the benefit of the private party who has suffered a violation of rights. When the contemnor cures the contemptuous conduct, he or she is no longer in civil contempt
• applying the rules of statutory construction to interpret Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 9

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).