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Além da previsão constante na legislação federal, os estados possuem previsões
expressas e semelhantes acerca do contempt power, inclusive com casos ilustrativos em que
este deve ser aplicado.
justice;
(2) Misbehavior of any of its officers in their official transactions;
(3) Disobedience or resistance to its lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command.
Previsão constante do act 236 of 1961 do estado de Michigan:
“The supreme court, circuit court, and all other courts of record, have power to punish by fine or
imprisonment, or both, persons guilty of any neglect or violation of duty or misconduct in all of the following
cases:
(a) Disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent behavior, committed during its sitting, in its immediate view
and presence, and directly tending to interrupt its proceedings or impair the respect due to its authority.
(b) Any breach of the peace, noise, or disturbance directly tending to interrupt its proceedings.
(c) All attorneys, counselors, clerks, registers, sheriffs, coroners, and all other persons in any manner
elected or appointed to perform any judicial or ministerial services, for any misbehavior in their office or trust,
or for any willful neglect or violation of duty, for disobedience of any process of the court, or any lawful order of
the court, or any lawful order of a judge of the court or of any officer authorized to perform the duties of the
judge.
(d) Parties to actions for putting in fictitious bail or sureties or for any deceit or abuse of the process
or proceedings of the court.
(e) Parties to actions, attorneys, counselors, and all other persons for the nonpayment of any sum of
money which the court has ordered to be paid.
(f) Parties to actions, attorneys, counselors, and all other persons for disobeying or refusing to
comply with any order of the court for the payment of temporary or permanent alimony or support money or
costs made in any action for divorce or separate maintenance.
(g) Parties to actions, attorneys, counselors, and all other persons for disobeying any lawful order,
decree, or process of the court.
(h) All persons for assuming to be and acting as officers, attorneys, or counselors of any court without
authority; for rescuing any property or persons that are in the custody of an officer by virtue of process issued
from that court; for unlawfully detaining any witness or party to an action while he or she is going to, remaining
at, or returning from the court where the action is pending for trial, or for any other unlawful interference with
or resistance to the process or proceedings in any action.
(i) All persons who, having been subpoenaed to appear before or attend, refuse or neglect to obey the
subpoena, to attend, to be sworn, or when sworn, to answer any legal and proper interrogatory in any of the
following circumstances:
(i) As a witness in any court in this state.
(ii) Any officer of a court of record who is empowered to receive evidence.
(iii) Any commissioner appointed by any court of record to take testimony.
(iv) Any referees or auditors appointed according to the law to hear any cause or matter.
(v) Any notary public or other person before whom any affidavit or deposition is to be taken.
(j) Persons summoned as jurors in any court, for improperly conversing with any party to an action
which is to be tried in that court, or with any other person in regard to merits of the action, or for receiving
communications from any party to the action or any other person in relation to the merits of the action without
immediately disclosing the communications to the court.
(k) All inferior magistrates, officers, and tribunals for disobedience of any lawful order or process of
a superior court, or for proceeding in any cause or matter contrary to law after the cause or matter has been
removed from their jurisdiction.
(l) The publication of a false or grossly inaccurate report of the court's proceedings, but a court shall
not punish as a contempt the publication of true, full, and fair reports of any trial, argument, proceedings, or
decision had in the court.
(m) All other cases where attachments and proceedings as for contempts have been usually adopted
and practiced in courts of record to enforce the civil remedies of any parties or to protect the rights of any
party”.