{"id":2284,"date":"2024-08-19T15:20:32","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T15:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/court-upholds-validity-of-judges-oral-order-finding-attorney-in-contempt\/"},"modified":"2024-08-19T15:20:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T15:20:32","slug":"court-upholds-validity-of-judges-oral-order-finding-attorney-in-contempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/court-upholds-validity-of-judges-oral-order-finding-attorney-in-contempt\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Upholds Validity of Judge&#8217;s Oral Order Finding Attorney in Contempt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>Concluding a Loudoun County judge issued a valid order to take an attorney into custody for contempt of court while representing a client, the Virginia Court of Appeals rejected the lawyer\u2019s claims that other court staff breached their duty by following through with the order.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/15Og6pJPBS26rZ4MyWrGOOk8jJgD-6GkS\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Aug. 13 opinion<\/a>, the appellate court affirmed the validity of Loudoun County Circuit Judge James P. Fisher\u2019s oral order from the bench instructing a deputy to take attorney Rachel Virk into custody after she repeatedly challenged the court\u2019s ruling in a pending divorce matter. The appellate court agreed to dismiss Virk\u2019s civil lawsuit, which lodged various claims of false imprisonment against the arresting officer, deputy Ken Hollaway, and negligence claims against Susan Barbini, deputy clerk, of court for a handwritten commitment order, among others.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concluding a Loudoun County judge issued a valid order to take an attorney into custody for contempt of court while representing a client, the Virginia Court of Appeals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1585,1571,143,3012,915,787,1574,483,3011],"class_list":["post-2284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-attorney","tag-contempt","tag-court","tag-finding","tag-judges","tag-oral","tag-order","tag-upholds","tag-validity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}