MISBEHAVIOR OR CONTEMPT
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Kutch v. Del Mar College (1992)
Most recently applied in Zhou Pei and Shaun White v. Nicholas White, Mark Moersen, Taurus Manufacturing Co. and Optimas Manufacturing Solutions (December 2014)
Added by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 148, Sec. 3.01, eff
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) An attorney at law may be fined or imprisoned by any court for misbehavior or for contempt of the court.
(b) An attorney may not be suspended or stricken from the rolls for contempt unless the contempt involves fraudulent or dishonorable conduct or malpractice.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.