ROGER LUCKETT, APPELLANT,

v.

MARGUERITE DOCEN, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By

• Moakley v. Smallwood, 826 So. 2d 221 (Fla. 2002)
  …art. XI, Rule 11.14. The third alternative is the exercise of the inherent power of the courts to impose contempt sanctions on attorneys for lesser infractions, a procedure which this Court expressly approved in Shelley v. District Court of Appeal, 350 So. 2d 471 (Fla.1977). Id. at 965. The present majority introduces a new basis for sanctioning lawyers through the imposition of monetary sanctions against an attorney for “bad faith conduct.” Majority op. at 227. My problem with this is that, apparently, th…
• Carnival Corp. v. Beverly, 744 So. 2d 489 (Fla. 1st DCA 1999)
  …preme Court of Florida has determined that “the imposition of a summary contempt sanction is a proper and necessary disciplinary tool to aid a judicial tribunal in carrying out its necessary court functions.... ” Shelley v. District Court of Appeal, 350 So. 2d 471, 472 (Fla.1977). It is well-settled that “counsel commits a direct criminal contempt when counsel, in the presence of the court, violates a direct order of the trial court relating to the conduct of court proceedings ...,” Vizzi v. State, 501 So. 2d…

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• Thomas v. State, 752 So. 2d 679 (Fla. 1st DCA 2000)
  …2 (Fla. 3d DCA 1984) (citations omitted), rev. denied, 461 So. 2d 113 (Fla.1985). Thus, when considering the summary contempt power of courts, Florida courts have frequently cited to federal authority. See, e.g., Shelley v. District Court of Appeal, 350 So. 2d 471, 473 (Fla.1977). . As one commentator has recommended: Trial judges can help reduce the incidence of [problematic] closing arguments ... by including as a part of every order setting a case for trial an unambiguous statement that lawyers who try c…