An appellate team representing three plaintiff firms is calling “radical and profoundly troubling” a Texas federal judge’s contempt order against those firms for allegedly violating a nationwide injunction against the Obama-era overtime rule by filing a suit in New Jersey federal court a year ago.

Jenner & Block partner Matthew Hellman, co-chair of the firm’s Supreme Court and appellate practice, on Tuesday asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to review the contempt order by U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant of the Eastern District of Texas. Mazzant in March imposed the sanction on lawyers at Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, Outten & Golden, and Green Savits of Florham Park, as well as on their client, Carmen Alvarez.