David Chaumette convinced an appellate court that a criminal contempt finding against him was void because the underlying order he was accused of violating was not specific enough.
January 09, 2015 at 09:08 PM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
First, former Houston Bar Association president David Chaumette beat a trial court’s ruling holding him in civil contempt for presiding over a foreclosure sale of property without authority. And now he’s won another appellate court ruling dismissing a criminal contempt finding related to the same dispute.
The background to the Dec. 23, 2014, ruling by Houston’s First Court of Appeals in In Re David Chaumette is as follows.
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