The judge threatened her with a contempt charge if she failed to heed his order.

The judge has not yet dealt with the contempt charges.

But he had never set a date to hear contempt charges.

Now, the Mayor and several top advisers face personal contempt charges for the same problem.

Punishment under the criminal contempt charge is at the court's discretion.

He added the Government would seek a fine of more than $1 million on the contempt charge.

They could only hold me on contempt charges for three months in peacetime.

Time also faced a contempt charge, but The Times did not.

If he had not testified, the panel could have brought contempt charges against him.

I could have her back in court next week on a civil contempt charge.