Opinion ID: 2403365
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Heading Rank: 29

Heading: Contempt related fees and expenses against Donald Bowers

Text: On September 3, 2009, the district court issued a memorandum decision and order of contempt against Donald Bowers for violating the district court's June 26, 2008 order enjoining encumbrance or transfer of disputed software codes. In support, the district court found that Donald Bowers had encumbered WideBand's intellectual property by filing a UCC-1 financing statement in Massachusetts on November 6, 2008. The order directed Donald Bowers, in pertinent part, to reimburse Clear-One for its reasonable attorneys' fees and costs incurred in pursuing the contempt order against him. In turn, the magistrate judge issued a memorandum decision and order on January 19, 2010, awarding $57,188.61 in fees to ClearOne. On February 2, 2010, Donald Bowers filed a written objection to the magistrate judge's memorandum decision and order.