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Contempt Fine for Failure to Appear in Person Reaches $53K

August 24, 2024

Last month, the Federal Circuit denied an appeal filed by Backertop Licensing LLC and its sole owner and Texas paralegal Lori LaPray from an order in which Delaware Chief Judge Colm F. Connolly imposed a running civil contempt fine. The mandate ending that appeal and returning jurisdiction to Judge Connolly has now issued. The court has set a September 18, 2024 hearing, at which LaPray is to be physically present “to address potential fraud on the Court involving Backertop, potential misconduct by Backertop's counsel, and Backertop's document production made in response to the Court's March 31, 2023 Memorandum Order” and by which time LaPray is to be prepared to pay the cumulative contempt fine, which the court indicates comes to $53K.


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