EX PARTE FERGUSON

1001185.

819 So.2d 626 (2001)

Ex parte R.A. FERGUSON, Circuit Judge. (In re Judith S. Crittenden v. R.A. Ferguson, Circuit Judge).

Supreme Court of Alabama.

October 5, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bill Pryor, atty. gen., and Fred F. Bell, asst. atty. gen., for petitioner.

Frank M. Bainbridge and James W. Davis of Bainbridge, Mims, Rogers & Smith, L.L.P., Birmingham, for respondent.


MADDOX, Retired Justice.

Judith S. Crittenden, a lawyer, was held by Judge R.A. Ferguson to be in criminal contempt of court "for her willful disobedience [of a court order] wherein she encouraged, directed and advised" her client, in a divorce action, that the client, the wife, could move her children out of state, even though the divorce judgment entered in the case had specifically prohibited the removal of the children from the Jefferson/Shelby County area without...

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