Constructive Contempt - Judgment Search Results

In Re: S. Mulgaokar

Court: Supreme Court of India

Reported in: (1978)3SCC339; [1978]3SCR162

..... of the court the court s jurisdiction to initiate proceedings and punish for constructive contempt suo motu crystallized in the eighteenth century even though it is clear that the ..... has serious shortcomings which demand systemic correction through socially oriented reform initiated through constructive criticism the contempt power should not be an interdict all this far from undermining the .....

Praveen Dalpatrai Desai Vs. Gangavishindas Rijharam Bajaj

Court: Mumbai

Reported in: (1978)80BOMLR100; 1978MhLJ646

..... 12 a foreshore road bombay in 1962 the accused wanted to construct another building known as divyaprabha on a vacant portion of ..... inasmuch as after the accused was found guilty in the contempt proceeding and was sentenced by subsequent compromise between the parties ..... the observation made by the high court in that misc application contempt of court proceeding are binding or not and whether besides .....

Landmark Communications, Inc. Vs. Virginia

Court: US Supreme Court

..... of justice poff construed the statutory language so as to encompass appellant although a contrary construction might well save the statute from constitutional invalidity it is not our function to construe ..... the name of preserving the dignity of the bench would probably engender resentment suspicion and contempt much more than it would enhance respect mr justice frankfurter in his dissent in bridges .....

Nandini Satpathy Vs. P.L. Dani and anr.

Court: Supreme Court of India

Reported in: AIR1978SC1025; 1978CriLJ968; (1978)2SCC424; [1978]3SCR608

..... stated remembering the american cases and the rule of liberal construction that suspects not yet formally charged but embryonically are accused ..... drove home a point which deserves attention while on constitutional construction it is sufficient to remember that long before our constitution ..... contagious if the government becomes a law breaker it breeds contempt for law it invites every man to become a law .....

Commissioner of Agricultural Income-tax Vs. Malayalam Plantations Ltd.

Court: Kerala

Reported in: (1978)8CTR(Ker)348; [1978]115ITR624(Ker)

..... is narrowly construed as contended for by the revenue and such a narrow construction was not favoured by the supreme court it is unnecessary to refer ..... to the tribunal as required by s 60 6 of the act contempt of courts act 1971 sections 20 2 b j b koshy a ..... k basheer k p balachandran jj civil contempt limitation under section 20 held aggrieved party should file an application within .....

A.K. Subbiah and anr. Vs. the Chairman, Karnataka Legislative Council, ...

Court: Karnataka

Reported in: AIR1979Kant24

..... in appropriate cases it is difficult to place such a narrow construction on the expression proceedings appearing in art 194 2 of ..... be interfered with by the courts 4 that a committal for contempt by either house is in practice within its exclusive jurisdiction ..... since the facts constituting the alleged contempt need not be stated on the warrant of committal it .....

United States Vs. Mauro

Court: US Supreme Court

..... other than the language of the statute when difficult questions of construction arise i would have thought however that one would first turn ..... respondents in no 7159 mauro and fusco were indicted for criminal contempt in the united states district court for the eastern district of ..... in 2 of the enactment of congress footnote 2 the criminal contempt charges arose out of the refusal of mauro and fusco .....

Zablocki Vs. Redhail

Court: US Supreme Court

..... applicable here here too the wisconsin legislature has adopted this rule in the course of constructing a complex social welfare system that necessarily deals with the intimacies of family life ante ..... support obligations may be enforced directly via page 434 u s 390 wage assignments civil contempt proceedings and criminal penalties footnote 16 and if the state believes that parents of children .....

Mrs. Maneka Gandhi Vs. Union of India (Uoi) and anr.

Court: Supreme Court of India

Reported in: AIR1978SC597; (1978)1SCC248; [1978]2SCR621

..... and not of articles 21 and 19 the basic approach adopted therein as regards the construction of fundamental rights guaranteed in the different provisions of the constitution categorically discarded the major ..... state friendly relations with foreign states public order decency or morality or in relation to contempt of court defamation or incitement to an offence as provided in article 19 2 the .....

Greyhound Corp. Vs. Mt. Hood Stages, Inc.

Court: US Supreme Court

..... appeals a logic and precedent dictate that t he starting point in every case involving construction of a statute is the language itself santa fe industries inc v green 430 u ..... three judge district court s order and was adjudged in criminal contempt certain of its officers were adjudged in civil contempt fines aggregating 600 000 were imposed united states v greyhound corp .....