United States First Circuit

Order of contempt against appellants, a pair of criminal defense attorneys, regarding their acceptance of legal fees from a client, defendant, in the face of an earlier protective order restraining the client from disbursing certain assets is reversed where the protective order at issue did not clearly and unambiguously enjoin appellants from accepting the attorneys' fees in question.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/23/2005
• Published 12/23/2005

Judges

• LYNCH, Circuit Judge., Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, STAHL, Senior Circuit Judge, and LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• W. Kenneth O'Donnell, for appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael P. Iannotti, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Robert Clark Corrente, United States Attorney, and Michael E. Davitt and Patrick Murphy, Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section, United States Department of Justice, were on brief, for appellee.