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· 5/10/1971

Grant Sykes v. United States

Citations

  • 444 F.2d 928
  • 144 U.S. App. D.C. 53
  • 1971 U.S. App. LEXIS 10317

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • reversing a criminal contempt conviction because “the record discloses no evidence of any criminal intent on the part of the appellant”
  • attorney’s failure to appear was “an isolated aberration”; contempt conviction reversed
  • attorney’s failure to appear was “an isolated aberration”; contempt conviction reversed
  • approving summary contempt for an attorney’s non-appearance

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: McGowan, Tamm, Robb

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