A federal judge in Washington, D.C., this week upheld a magistrate judge’s contempt order against a local attorney.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah Robinson issued an order in September 2017 against Matthew LeFande, a lawyer based in Arlington, Virginia, holding him in contempt for refusing to take the stand to be sworn in for a deposition. In upholding Robinson’s order Monday, District Judge Amy Berman Jackson wrote that Robinson “appropriately exercised her criminal contempt authority.”
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