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IN RE RABIN

No. 5429.

276 A.2d 729 (1971)

In the Matter of Joel J. RABIN.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided May 5, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter S. Smith, Washington, D. C., for appellant. Frank D. Reeves, Washington, D. C., also entered an appearance for appellant.

Allan Ashman and John M. Joyce, Washington, D. C., counsel for National Legal Aid and Defender Assn., filed a brief as amicus curiae.

Sherman L. Cohn, Washington, D. C., also entered an appearance for National Legal Aid and Defender Assn. and filed an amicus curiae brief as counsel for the Federal Bar Association's National Committee on Legal Assistance to the Poor.

Terry F. Lenzner, Jason I. Newman and Benjamin Stein, counsel for the Office of Economic Opportunity, filed a brief as amicus curiae.

Before KERN, GALLAGHER and NEBEKER, Associate Judges.

KERN, Associate Judge:

The trial court held in contempt appellant, a local attorney employed by the Neighborhood Legal Services Program (NLSP), and sentenced him to pay a fine or in lieu thereof serve a jail sentence. He appeals on the grounds that (1) he did not disobey the trial court so as to justify being held in contempt, (2) the trial court lacked authority to order him to accept the assignment out of which the contempt order arose, and (3) the contempt order...

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