JOHN ROBERTSON v. UNITED STATES ex rel. WYKENNA WATSON (560 U.S. 272)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided May 24, 2010 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 560 U.S. 272 · 130 S. Ct. 2184
- Decided
- May 24, 2010
- Term
- October Term 2009
- Vote
- 5–4
- Issue area
- Criminal Procedure
- Disposition
- Petition denied or appeal dismissed
- Outcome
- Petitioning party lost
- Ideological direction
- Conservative
Opinion excerpt
Justice Sotomayor, with whom Justice Kennedy joins, dissenting. The Chief Justice would hold that criminal prosecutions, including criminal contempt proceedings, must be brought on behalf of the government. I join his opinion with the understanding that the narrow holding it proposes does not address civil contempt proceedings or consider more generally the legitimacy of existing regimes for the enforcement of restraining orders.
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