These terms were distributed to Samsung in
violation of the protective order, with Samsung trying to exploit the terms in negotiations with Nokia.
A violation of a protective order will result in criminal charges against the respondent.
But the court censured Webber, as well, because Rule 30 (b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure only allows lawyers to instruct deponents not to answer in order to preserve a priviledge or avoid
violation of a protective order.
Under the district court's inherent power to sanction an attorney for litigation abuses, the attorney's
violation of a protective order that he fashioned was certainly well within the district judge's discretion to sanction.
Not exact matches
Domestic Violence - Domestic violence covers a broad category
of crimes and can including spousal abuse, making terroristic threats, domestic assaults, child abuse, and
violations of domestic violence restraining
orders or
protective order violations.
This crime also applies to entering or remaining at a place in
violation of a retraining or
protective order.