Minnesota Lawyer articles from May 2009

Minnesota Lawyer archives from May 2009

Md. Court of Appeals: Swenson v. Bender.(Brief article)
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Fiduciary Relationship; Student / Advisor 1. The advisor-student relationship between a doctoral candidate and a university faculty member is not per se fiduciary. 2. The advisor-student...

Md. Court of Appeals: Whitaker v. 3M Co.
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Class Certification 1. This court reviews a District Court's decision granting or denying class certification for abuse of discretion; an erroneous application of Minn. R. Civ. P. 23 constitutes an...

Md. Court of Appeals: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Frelix.
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff No-Fault Arbitration By statute, mandatory no-fault arbitration is appropriate if expenses incurred by the claimant at the commencement of arbitration are less than or equal to $10,000. If no-fault...

Md. Court of Appeals: Sitek v. Striker.(Brief article)
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Contract for Deed Cancellation 1. A notice of cancellation served by a vendor to a contract for deed is not invalidated by the vendor's subsequent bankruptcy filing. The automatic stay created by the...

Md. Court of Appeals: Matter of Temporary Immediate Suspension Family Child Care License of Stone.
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Family Child Care License Even though three physicians testified that a child's arm fracture could have occurred on a date that he was in the care of a family child care licensee, we conclude that the...

Md. Court of Appeals: In the Matter of the Civil Commitment of: Webber.(Brief article)
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Sexually Dangerous Person Where the proposed patient's history includes two rapes and three incidents of molestation and forced fondling; base rate statistics indicate that the patient is highly likely to...

Md. Court of Appeals: Jeurissen v. Town & Country Homes, Inc.(Brief article)
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Purchase Agreement Even though the parties' purchase agreement provides that an additional purchase price of $113,000 per useable acre will be paid upon receipt of governmental approvals for the buyer's...

Md. Court of Appeals: Haugen v. Adamek.(Brief article)
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Child Custody Where mother and father are the unmarried parents of a child born in 2006; the District Court's finding that mother is less mature than father is supported by the testimony of a psychologist...

Md. Court of Appeals: Ahmed v. GCA Production Services, Inc.(Brief article)
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff MHRA; Subject-Matter Jurisdiction Where, on Nov. 29, 2007, after having received a right to sue letter from the EEOC, the plaintiffs served a summons and complaint on the defendant alleging discrimination...

Md. Court of Appeals: Brown v. American National Property and Casualty Co.
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Auto; Intentional-Acts Exclusion Where the insured's adult son, who was driving the insured's car with the insured's permission, drank several alcoholic drinks and then drove at speeds far exceeding the...

Md. Court of Appeals: Saarela v. Minnesota FAIR Plan.
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Fire; Increased Hazard Where the insured's fire insurance policy provided for exclusion of losses occurring while the hazard is increased by a means within the insured's knowledge or control; at the time...

Md. Court of Appeals: Gunnink v. Minnesota Department of Revenue.
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Res Judicata Where the taxpayers brought their first action to prevent the state from foreclosing on real property to satisfy unpaid state income taxes; the District Court denied a temporary restraining...

Md. Court of Appeals: Russell v. US Federal Employees.
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Misconduct Where claimant was employed as an engineer in the corporate income tax division of the Internal Revenue Service; claimant believed that there was election fraud during the 2000 and 2004...

Md. Court of Appeals: Clear Channel Outdoor, Inc. v. City of Arden Hills.
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Billboard Lighting Where the city denied a permit application to add light emitting diode (LED) lights to a billboard sign that was already granted a nonconforming use permit, we conclude that the denial...

Md. Court of Appeals: Larson v. Lakeport Township.(Brief article)
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Cartway; Damages Where the property owner complains of the damages a jury awarded him for the establishment of a cartway across his property; the township's appraiser opined that the cartway would reduce...

Md. Court of Appeals: Minnesota v. Jackson.(Brief article)
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Firearm-Trace Report; 'Crawford' Firearm-trace reports are not testimonial in nature and do not implicate a defendant's right to confrontation under Crawford v. Washington because they are not prepared...

Md. Court of Appeals: Minnesota v. Morales.(Brief article)
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Redacted Statement; Prior Testimony 1. It is error to admit portions of a declarant's out-of-court statement that are not against his penal interest, but rather inculpate the defendant, when redactions...

Md. Court of Appeals: Minnesota v. Lopez.(Brief article)
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Standard of Review Appellate review of a District Court's determination that a defendant must register as a predatory offender presents a mixed question of law and fact. Such review is conducted pursuant...

Md. Court of Appeals: Minnesota v. Kennedy.(Brief article)
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Sufficient Evidence Where an emergency physician and an officer who saw the victim on the night she went to the hospital testified that the victim reported that her injuries were caused by defendant, her...

Md. Court of Appeals: Minnesota v. Cook.(Brief article)
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Appurtenant Property Where the District Court read the statutory definition of first-degree burglary as part of the jury instructions; the prosecutor in closing argument discussed the second element of...

Md. Court of Appeals: Minnesota v. Phillips.(Brief article)
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Alleged Accomplice Where defendant was charged with criminal sexual conduct for engaging in an intimate relationship with a 15 year old girl; the girl's mother testified that she was really upset about...

Md. Court of Appeals: Minnesota v. Dufner.(Brief article)
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Probable Cause Where defendant was arrested and charged with conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine in Kandiyohi County after purchasing pseudoephedrine while in the company of two others; defendant...

Md. Court of Appeals: Minnesota v. Montgomery.(Brief article)
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Where there was evidence that defendant beat the victim, who was his wife, told her she was going to die that night, and gave her a choice of how she would die; after the victim chose pills, defendant...

Md. Court of Appeals: 'Austin' Factors Satisfied.(Brief article)
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff 'Austin' Factors Satisfied Where the probationer admitted that he violated probation by failing to attend scheduled chemical dependency treatment sessions; the probationer attributed his failures to his...

Md. Court of Appeals: Minnesota v. Carter.(Brief article)
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Detention; Search of Vehicle Where officers observed actions by defendant consistent with the sale of narcotics; a few minutes later, the officers observed defendant's parked vehicle; the officer...

Md. Court of Appeals: Minnesota v. Steinbach.(Brief article)
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Expansion of Stop Where an officer stopped a vehicle for a traffic violation; after the stop, the officer saw the driver and defendant, who was the front-seat passenger, reaching below the center console;...

Minnesota Supreme Court: Minnesota v. Underdahl and Brunner.
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Intoxilyzer Source Code 1. Minnesota Rule of Criminal Procedure 28.04 requires the State to show critical impact in all pretrial appeals and there is no exception for an appeal from a discovery order....

Minn. Supreme Ct.: Order for Hearing to Consider Proposed Amendments to Rules of Criminal Procedure.
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer staff Proposed Rule Revision A hearing will be held on June 30, 2009 to consider the report of the Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Rules of Criminal Procedure. The committee has recommended a complete...

Minn. Supreme Court: Order Amending the Student Practice Rules.
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer staff Student Practice Rules Effective April 23, 2009, amendments to the Student Practice Rules are prescribed and promulgated. Case Number: ADM-09-8002 Case Name: Order Amending the Student Practice...

U.S. Bankruptcy Court: In re: Foldenauer.
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer staff Presumption of Abuse Where the debtors filed a voluntary petition under Chapter 7; based on the U.S. Trustee's review of the debtors' schedules and information, it appears that the debtors have the...

Minnesota justice in a time of pandemic.
May 4, 2009... Byline: Mark A. Cohen Swine flu -- or some other pandemic -- spreads like wildfire throughout Minnesota, plunging the state into a public health crisis. People are terrified of infection, and the governor begins taking broad steps to...

Pandemic: A potentially 'catastrophic' impact on court services.
May 4, 2009... Byline: Mark A. Cohen Regardless of what preparations the court system makes, the onslaught of a full-fledged pandemic could create myriad issues in terms of carrying on court operations. The following warning is from Guidelines for...

Minneapolis atty. says employers need contingency plans for dealing with pandemic-related issues.
May 4, 2009... Byline: Mark A. Cohen With several pandemic scares in recent years -- from avian flu to SARS -- many big employers have adopted policies for dealing with a major health crisis. Most small- to mid-size employers -- including many law firms...

Minnesota Supreme Court decision is a blow to Intoxilyzer.(criminal procedure in driving cases)
May 4, 2009... Byline: Barbara L. Jones In a decision that will have far-reaching effect on criminal prosecutions, the Minnesota Supreme Court has decided that drivers charged with DWI are entitled to the Intoxilyzer source code so long as they make a...

Bill to 'benefit lawyers' actually backed by business.
May 4, 2009... Proposed insurance-related legislation publicly branded by its critics as “a pay increase for wealthy trial lawyers” is in reality being pushed by business interests rather than lawyers. The bill — HF417/SF528 —...

Minnesota bill to 'benefit lawyers' actually backed by business.
May 4, 2009... Byline: Michelle Lore Proposed insurance-related legislation publicly branded by its critics as a pay increase for wealthy trial lawyers is in reality being pushed by business interests rather than lawyers. The bill -- HF417/SF528 --...

Minn. Court of Appeals ruling in age-discrimination litigation clarifies class certification burden.
May 4, 2009... Byline: Michelle Lore The Minnesota Court of Appeals has determined that parties moving for class certification must prove by a preponderance of the evidence that all of the certification requirements have been met. In so ruling, the...

Law student practice rules expanded by Minnesota Supreme Court.
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Law students will be able to observe confidential client conferences under a new rule recently adopted by the Minnesota Supreme Court. The rule, which took effect April 23, preserves the attorney-client...

Petition seeks change to Minnesota bar exam rule.
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff A group of attorneys are challenging the American Bar Association's requirement that an individual be a graduate of an ABA-accredited law school to take the Minnesota bar exam. Last week, Dorsey & Whitney...

Minn. Court of Appeals finds faculty advisor owes no fiduciary duty to Ph.D. candidate.
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff An adjunct professor serving as a dissertation advisor does not owe a fiduciary duty to a student she advises, said the Minnesota Court of Appeals last week. The student, a Ph.D. candidate at an online...

U.S. Supreme Court denies cert in challenge to Minnesota election law.
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff The U.S. Supreme Court last week declined to hear attorney Jill Clark's First Amendment challenge to a state election law. Clark unsuccessfully sought the seat held by Minnesota Supreme Court Justice...

Cellmate's statements to informant admissible.
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer staff A cellmate’s statements obtained by an undercover informant after the right to counsel had attached are admissible at trial in order to impeach the defendant, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled. The...

ABA National Conference aims to help lawyers with disabilities.(Conference news)
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff The American Bar Association's second National Conference on Employment of Lawyers with Disabilities will take place June 15-16, 2009 in Washington, D.C. According to a press release announcing the event,...

Minnesota Supreme Court to hear case at Buffalo High School.
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff The Minnesota Supreme Court will hear oral arguments at Buffalo High School on Wednesday, May 6, 2009. Approximately 800 Buffalo area students will pack the school auditorium to watch oral arguments. To...

Major facelift proposed to Minnesota's criminal procedure rules.
May 4, 2009... Byline: Barbara L. Jones A chance remark about the difficulties of navigating the labyrinth that is Rule 26 of the Minnesota Rules of Criminal Procedure set in motion the complete rewrite of the rules recently submitted to the Minnesota...

Minnesota Lawyers in the News: May 4, 2009.
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Brian T. Grogan has been elected to a three-year term on the board of directors of Moss & Barnett. Terese A. West and Matthew P. Kostolnik have been elected shareholders. Grogan is the chair of the firm's...

Producing your own legal podcast.
May 4, 2009... Byline: Justin Rebello The popularity of podcasts has been skyrocketing in legal circles, allowing attorneys a new outlet to spread news and opinion. And with a rise in potential clients who listen to podcasts on their morning commute,...

Minnesota Bar Buzz: May 4, 2009.(Black Women Lawyers Network )
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Black Women Lawyers Network celebrates with Smith luncheon The Black Women Lawyers Network recently held its eighth annual Leno O. Smith Recognition Luncheon, featuring University of Minnesota Law School...

Commentary: Coleman v. Franken: Revisiting 'Bush v. Gore,' maybe.
May 4, 2009... Byline: Marshall H. Tanick The seven-week recount trial in the U.S. Senate election between Republican Norm Coleman and DFLer challenger Al Franken is over and the long case has approached its next plateau: post-trial appellate...

Ethics: Addressing the need to cooperate.
May 4, 2009... Byline: Siama Y. Chaudhary Despite articles previously published by this office emphasizing the importance of cooperation in a disciplinary investigation, some lawyers still disregard their duty to cooperate. Without belaboring the...

Column: How to stay off list of endangered professional species.(Reprint)(Column)
May 4, 2009... Byline: Edward Poll Travel agents, stockbrokers, librarians, print journalists... these are just a few of the once-respected and efficient professions that are increasingly endangered by recessions and by customers with access to the...

Tips on buying a law practice.
May 4, 2009... Byline: Sylvia Hsieh Recently, we reported tips on selling a law practice. The other side of the coin is the recent uptick in lawyers looking to buy a law practice. “It’s a buyer’s market, not only because of the...

Minnesota Supreme Court announces ADR Ethics Board opening.(American depositary receipt)(Public notice)
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff The Supreme Court seeks one ADR educator/trainer to fill its at large position on the 13-member ADR Ethics Board. The Supreme Court will recruit for this position, previously the for-profit organization...

Minnesota State Bar Assn. stumps Capitol Hill for legal services funding.
May 4, 2009... Byline: Barbara L. Jones On Wednesday, April 22, it was about 60 degrees and partly sunny in Washington, D.C. But every so often the rain would break through and soak Capitol Hill, even while the sun was shining. It was a perfect...

8th Circuit Court of Appeals: Kahle v. Leonard.(Brief article)
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Voir Dire; Attorney's Fees; Civil Rights Case Where a jury found a corrections officer liable for $500,000 in compensatory damages and $600,000 in punitive damages as the result of a sexual assault on a...

8th Circuit Court of Appeals: Morris v. Lanpher.(Brief article)
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Search Warrant; Omitted Material; Qualified Immunity Where plaintiffs who brought a civil rights action against officers claiming an affidavit submitted in a search warrant application deliberately...

8th Circuit Court of Appeals: Shelton v. Purkett.(Brief article)
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Denial Of Counsel; Assistance Of Counsel Where an appellate court's finding that a trial court would have sent an exhibit to the jury even if a criminal defendant's counsel had been present was not...

8th Circuit Court of Appeals: Hunt v. Houston.(Brief article)
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff New Trial; Prosecutor Misconduct Where the state appealed the award of a new trial to a defendant sentenced to life in prison for murder, the District Court's grant of habeas relief is reversed because...

8th Circuit Court of Appeals: U.S. v. Torres.(Brief article)
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Manipulation; Controlled Drug Buys Where a defendant convicted on methamphetamine charges argued that officers did not need to engage in six controlled drug buys before arresting him and that the number...

8th Circuit Court of Appeals: U.S. v. Clark.(Brief article)
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Sufficient Explanation; Crack Cocaine Where a District Court amended a sentence for a defendant sentenced on crack-cocaine charges, the court's brief explanation was sufficient, especially since a...

8th Circuit Court of Appeals: U.S. v. Jones.(Brief article)
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Sufficient Explanation; Child Pornography Where the record showed that a District Court listened to a defendant's arguments for a downward departure, watched his PowerPoint presentation and stated that...

8th Circuit Court of Appeals: U.S. v. Baccam.(Brief article)
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Notice Where a sex offender raised a due process notice challenge after he was convicted under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act when he moved to another state but did not register as a...

8th Circuit Court of Appeals: U.S. v. Barnum.
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Search; Consent Where an officer's belief was reasonable under the totality of the circumstances that a defendant voluntarily consented to a search of his rental car and person, the voluntary consent...

8th Circuit Court of Appeals: U.S. v. Grant.(Brief article)
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Peremptory Challenge; Gender Where a defendant who was convicted of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of her boyfriend claimed the District Court erred in sustaining the government's objection to...

8th Circuit Court of Appeals: Maxfield v. Cintas Corporation.
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Military Employee; Termination Where an employee claimed his job position was changed and he was later terminated because of his military service in violation of the Uniform Services Employment and...

8th Circuit Court of Appeals: Westchester Fire Insurance Company v. Wallerich.
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Denial Of Coverage; Defense Cost; Reimbursement Where the District Court in an insurance coverage dispute found that the insurer did not have a duty to defend the insureds in an underlying lawsuit, both a...

8th Circuit Ct. of Appeals: Iowa Telecommunications Services v. Citizens Mutual Telephone Coop.
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Telecommunications Act; 'Carrier'; Local Exchange Network Where Sprint sought an interconnection agreement which was opposed by the defendants, the District Court did not err in finding that Sprint is a...

8th Circuit Court of Appeals: King v. Astrue.(Brief article)
May 4, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer staff Severe Mental Impairment; Non-Exertional Impairment; 'Grid' Evidence Where a social security disability claimant appealed the denial of benefits, the administrative law judge should not have used the...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Murphy v. Commissioner of Human Services.
May 11, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Equal Protection; Direct-Contact Position Under the Department of Human Services Background Studies Act, an individual whose parental rights were involuntarily terminated is permanently disqualified from...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Hines v. Fabian.(Brief article)
May 11, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Liberty Interest; Challenge Incarceration A prison inmate who is terminated from the Challenge Incarceration Program (CIP) because he does not meet discretionary admission criteria does not have a...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Child Support Overpaid.(Brief article)
May 11, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Child Support Overpaid Minnesota Statutes, section 518A.52, which states that a public authority shall compensate an obligor for overpaid support through reducing debts and arrearages owed to the obligee...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Fast v. Fast.
May 11, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Former Spouse's Bankruptcy A hold-harmless obligation in favor of a spouse or former spouse established in a marriage separation or dissolution proceeding, is an exception to discharge set forth in the...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Pechovnik v. Pechovnik.(Brief article)
May 11, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Order for Protection; Mootness Because collateral consequences attach to an order for protection, an appeal from an expired order for protection is not moot. We also conclude that the District Court...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Glenwood Investment Properties, LLC v. Britton Family Trust.
May 11, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Partition; Timely Appeal An order for partition under Minn. Stat. sec. 558.04 (2008) is not reviewable unless appealed within 30 days of the filing of the order pursuant to Minn. Stat. sec. 558.215...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Steele v. Mengelkoch.
May 11, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Discovery; Fifth Amendment Where plaintiff brought a defamation action against two individuals; after plaintiff refused to answer questions during his deposition, the District Court granted a defendant's...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Banks v. Ludeman.
May 11, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Discharge Denied Where the patient was indeterminately committed as a sexually dangerous person in 1998; the patient has refused to participate in sex-offender treatment, has continued to engage in...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: In the Matter of the Civil Commitment of: Brewer.(Brief article)
May 11, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Ineffective Assistance Where the proposed patient alleges that his attorney provided ineffective assistance in the commitment proceeding; the record does not show that counsel coerced or manipulated the...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: In the Matter of the Civil Commitment of: Faust.(Brief article)
May 11, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Mentally Ill Even though the proposed patient was evicted from a motel based on his behavior and he refused medication for his paranoid schizophrenia, we conclude that the District Court erred in...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: In the Matter of the Civil Commitment of: McKinley.
May 11, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Sexually Dangerous Person Where the proposed patient has four criminal-sexual-conduct convictions and the District Court found that he engaged in other conduct constituting harmful sexual conduct; two...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: In the Matter of the Civil Commitment of Baker.(Brief article)
May 11, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Sexually Dangerous Person Even though the District Court found that the 50-year-old proposed patient is not highly likely to engage in further acts of harmful sexual conduct, we conclude that the record...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: In the Matter of the Civil Commitment of: Shell.
May 11, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Sexually Dangerous Person Where the proposed patient self-reported eight incidents of sexual misconduct that took place over four years prior to his incarceration for first-degree criminal sexual conduct;...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Legg v. Gauge Construction Management & Development, Inc.
May 11, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Contractor's Recovery Fund Where a contractor hired a subcontractor to assist in building a home; later, the homeowners sued for negligent construction and all parties except the subcontractor entered...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Day Masonry v. Independent School District 347.
May 11, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Statute of Limitations Even though the school district's contract claims are barred by the statute of limitations in Minn. Stat. sec. 541.051 because the district , through its agents, knew or should have...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Hirsch v. Antzaras.(Brief article)
May 11, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Contempt Order Where mother appeals from an order finding her in contempt for failing to obtain life insurance that would guarantee her child-support obligations, setting purge conditions, and directing...