In re Probst’s Empirical Analysis

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7 federal appellate · 2 district ·

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1. ““It seems to us that the bankrupt’s misappropriation of the money in his hands is not within the first of these clauses ‘misbehavior in the presence of the court, or so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice.’ He is not an ‘officer of the court’ who has misbehaved in his official transactions. Our attention has been called to no writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command of the court which he has disobeyed. Had an order been made directing him to pay the amount of the misappropriated money into the registry of the court, and he had disobeyed such order, he would be within the provisions of the section; but on the record presented here we cannot find authority for the entry of the order sought to be reviewed. This may be a highly technical ruling; but where Congress has been so industrious to restrict the natural inherent powers of a federal court, scrupulous attention to the limitations it has imposed would seem to be the proper course.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Fidelity Mortgage Investors v. Camelia Builders, Inc. · Dufenhorst v. Aitkin