Now, the Supreme Court of India is hearing a contempt-of-court petition against Mr. Mancini.
The Supreme Court is now hearing a contempt-of-court petition against the ambassador for breaking his assurance.
He has also been barred from taking part in the parliamentary elections because of a contempt-of-court charge against him.
It demanded that he submit the legislation himself and agree in writing to sign it or face possible contempt-of-court charges.
Meanwhile, on November 3rd, the Supreme Court threatened contempt-of-court proceedings against Mr Sharif over his handling of the court-enlargement affair.
The Supreme Court is also hearing a contempt-of-court petition against Mr. Mancini.
These facts, and the possibility that the defendant could get a contempt-of-court citation for failing to disgorge funds from offshore accounts, give plaintiffs some leverage.
Italy's U-turn also upset the Supreme Court, which ordered the travel ban on Mr. Mancini while hearing a contempt-of-court petition filed against him by a private citizen.
This led Subramanian Swamy, a politician with India's small opposition Janata Party, to file a public-interest petition to the Supreme Court seeking contempt-of-court proceedings against the Italian ambassador.
In a speech in 2003 he noted that over the preceding year more than 70 contempt-of-court cases had been considered sufficiently serious to warrant investigation by his office.
Measured by the laws of most non-U.S. jurisdictions, contempt of court was committed night after night on prime-time television.
By December, the offshore ban was largely reinstated, so that in February 2011 a federal judge found the Department of Interior in contempt of court for its foot-dragging.
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In making her decision to jail him, Ms Justice Elizabeth Dunne referred to the three findings of contempt against the 66-year-old at the same court in July, and her rejection of his evidence in the contempt hearing as 'not credible, evasive and unco-operative'.
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There could be contempt of court, if the court had actually - it turns out to these tapes encompass something that the courts would have wanted, or there could be something as bad as obstruction of justice if this is something that was actually subpoenaed and they had destroyed them anyway.
Sean Quinn has been taken to prison to begin a nine-week sentence for contempt of court.
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The Supreme Court last month dismissed an appeal by Sean Quinn jr against his three-month sentence for contempt of court.
BBC: Former billionaire Sean Quinn begins nine-week jail term
That prompted Mexico's attorney-general to open the contempt of court proceedings that led to last week's vote.
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Quinn, 66, is serving a nine-week jail sentence for contempt of court.
Moroun and his top aide, Dan Stamper, were jailed for two days in January after a judge found them in contempt for failing to comply with court-ordered completion of ramps linking the existing bridge to expressways.
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MPs said the department may have also committed a contempt of Parliament by instructing court staff not to co-operate with its inquiry.
Mr Quinn is currently serving a nine-week prison sentence in the Republic of Ireland for contempt of court.
Correspondents say it is not clear what will happen to the prime minister if he does not initiate action against Mr Zardari - it is possible he could be jailed or face contempt of court proceedings.
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In October he was handed a 12-month jail term by a judge who found him in contempt of a High Court order instructing him to disclose Atiya's whereabouts.
The 66-year-old is serving nine weeks in Mountjoy Prison in Dublin for contempt of court.
Ireland is reeling today with the news that its richest businessman, the bankrupt former multibillionaire Sean Quinn is being sent to jail for contempt of court for neither deceasing nor fully revealing a Byzantine web of offshore asset- stripping maneuvers reaching from Russia to Belize.
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His comments come as Pakistan's Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani arrives on an official visit to the UK. It is the first time Mr Gilani has travelled abroad since the Pakistan supreme court convicted him of contempt for refusing to ask the Swiss authorities to re-open the corruption file on the country's President Asif Ali Zardari.
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