Harris County taxpayers paid US$400 per hour for attorney fees to represent Rosenthal in his contempt hearing.

He set next Tueday, the day after his deadline for passing the legislation, for contempt hearings.

He has refused to cooperate and will appear before Judge Hogan next week for a second contempt hearing.

Sokoloff is currently awaiting his contempt hearing.

He told The San Antonio Express-News that he would appear at the contempt hearing but did not expect to prevail.

Yesterday evening Justice Freedman directed the city to meet with Ms. Cutler next week to set up a schedule for the contempt hearing.

Probably in two weeks, when Keyes lets her go with a hundred-dollar fine and a lecture during the contempt hearing, he'll get it.

Instead, he granted the defense five days to submit a brief addressing the issue of whether there should be a contempt hearing and asked prosecutors to respond.

Each contempt hearing was conducted as a civil proceeding before a judge, with no jury.

Judge Alsup ordered Anderson to return to court August 28 for a contempt hearing.