Donald A. Ridgway v. T.L. Baker, Potter County Sheriff

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “[t]he right to counsel turns on whether deprivation of liberty may result from a proceeding, not upon its characterization as ‘criminal’ or ‘civil’”
• noting that “[t]he right to counsel turns on whether deprivation of liberty may result from a proceeding, not upon its characterization as ‘criminal’ or ‘civil’”
• finding case not to be moot because contempt conviction might be used in separate child support proceedings
• all finding a federal constitutional right to counsel for indigents facing imprisonment in a child support civil contempt proceeding
• all finding a federal constitutional right to counsel for indigents facing imprisonment in a child sup port civil contempt proceeding
• all finding a federal constitutional right to counsel for indigents [564 U.S. 439] facing imprisonment in a child support civil contempt proceeding

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).